Proverb #16

"AGBỊỊSỊ GBAA ỌTUULA, Ọ MỤRỤ AKỌ!"

This headline can imaginatively be seen on a signboard than as 'a proverb'. Thus, it has been rendered appropriately in emboldened Capital Letters. It should stand stately, like something over an Archway in classical Rome - a shouting inscription of sorts.  Here then, stands wisdom . The proverb means:

'The soldier-ant  stings the buttocks; the buttocks, learns to be wise.' -

It is a favourite of parents everywhere as they tell their children and wards to "get off the mud or cement floor".

In the old mud huts of Igbo land these ants would sometimes lead a trail right through our improvised living rooms while foraging.
A close encounter of the intimate kind with such a forceful experience of nature leaves
a welt of an unforgettable lesson that cannot be replicated at boarding school.

Picture First Appears: Here

Contributed By John Isiodu, Umunjam, Mbieri.

for iFaT at ifont@groups.facebook.com

© ifont 2011, as it appears here. 

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