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proverbs and idioms in English as features of English indigenization in Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs, African, Proverbs, AfricanTranslations into English Publisher Cape Town: Struik Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor PDF It is a common practice among Africans to engage proverbs when significant issues relating to the lives of communal members are discussed. All proverbs have some kind of deeper meaning behind them, and this is part of the Nigerian culture. Added to that are four significances each of every proverb Proverbs have an important impact on the storyline. But these values hidden in African proverbs have to be retrieved and used in mainstream scholarship as a methodology of knowledge production Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world's two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as Proverbs are used by people of all ages and statures to tell others about the importance of something“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten” Despite all the colonial and neo-colonial forces that acted against African identity and worldview, African proverbs have kept African values intact. Find, read and cite all the To do this comparative study, a total of forty (40) proverbs were selected from the four cultures of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Ivie; ten (10) proverbs from each culture were Nigerian proverbs are some of the rich cultural heritage of the Giant of Africa. These proverbs are powerful sayings that contain metaphors and imagery that give guidance on how to live a good and successful life, and they can be applied to a variety of situations Below are ten (10) African proverbs and their explanations. have four legs though there often fall. Source: The Nigerian proverb means that fear to failure should not be a reason for anyone to fail to For that reason, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the use of African.