Proverb #107

One of Tim Lyon's Birds: See also Proverb #7.

"Nnụnụ isi akaghi aka anaghi aga ahia otụrụkpọkpọ."

Weak-skulled birds don't flock with woodpeckers.



I read a story once about a goat that wanted so badly to be a lion. All sorts of contraptions and devices were invented and imagined for this goat, but nothing worked.

Eventually someone suggested the goat leave the herd and go dwell with a pride of lions. This leaves nothing to the imagination. No prizes either for what might have happened to the goat.

Our proverb calls to mind the Igbos' homage to the idea of everyone being properly acquainted with their own talents and skills. You don't call the palm wine-tapper to do the work of the flutist. And I guess if you aren't a woodpecker ... then you aren't a woodpecker.

It's funny where reading takes you - from the pages of  Awake - the watchtower magazine - to catch up on facts about the Gforce skull of a Wood Pecker - click - style or design?

Contributed By Bob Ojii, Umuahia, Abia State.

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