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  /ETSAKOR PROVERBS ETSAKOR DIALECT: Orere khor ghi orya le emale di okotor ukpade. TRANSLATION: A stranger does not eat with the host to the bottom of the bowl. MEANING: One who is invited to a meal or dinner often eats cautiously or carefully. LIFE APPLICATION:   In different aspects of our social life, every society has codes of behaviour expected of individuals. In the work place there are ethics of standard behaviour that govern each trade or practice. Certain behaviour of some individuals, for example, if not checked, may fall short of the required level of decorum.   Similarly, when people gather in social events such as marriage ceremonies or dinners, there is a standard of behaviour expected of those who are invited. No matter how hungry you are when invited to dinner, your behaviour must not portray you as a hungry man. The Proverb, as table manner, imposes a check on the excesses in human behaviour at dinner. /Etsakor Proverbs of the Edo People of Nigeria

Etsakor Proverbs ETSAKOR DIALECT: Or nor ri orfierler khia or ge li de obi lor ye. TRANSLATION: He that walks gradually, also gets to his destination. MEANING: He that progresses steadily, can also fulfill his destiny. LIFE APPLICATION:   Spectators who watch athletics events in stadia understand the fact that athletes who compete in competitions are endowed differently. And those who run fastest normally win in most races. Most of those who lost out in such competitions are naturally slower runners. Yet, they certainly complete their race, in their own time.    Life is like a race between competitors. The Proverb recognizes the fact that success or achievements in life could be great, sudden and overwhelming. The fame, riches or prosperity of some celebrities maybe so sudden beyond human comprehension.   But there are still some who become rich, successful and famous through talent, wisdom, diligence, resilience and prudence. This class of people, succeed in accumul...

ETSAKOR PROVERB ETSAKOR DIALECT: Uno khor ria ornor mhele. TRANSLATION: Words will not vilify him or her that is good. MEANING: Calumnies cannot damage or destroy the evidence of goodness or virtues in a person. LIFE APPLICATION:   The kind of life we live, whether it is good or bad; it is obvious. It cannot be hidden. The people around us, they know us! They know us by the way we relate with them. These people could be your family, friends, relatives, neighbours, community members, former course mates, colleagues in the office etc. For instance, a person maybe known for one or more of the following virtues: love, kindness, honesty, punctuality, diligence, happiness, justice etc.   Obviously, no man could possibly swim secretly before spectators! People are the mirror through which we see ourselves. Before an entire community adjudge a person to be good; that person may have lived well with them. In that case, the evidence or testimonies of his or her virtues or goodness must ...

ETSAKOR PROVERBS ETSAKOR DIALECT: Tsi otor, or kha somhi vhi ime; a ge gwa li ighele eva. TRANSLATION: If a piece of land is productive for farming, it is cultivated twice. MEANING: The Proverb here recommends that a piece of fertile land could be cropped for two seasons before it is left to go fallow. LIFE APPLICATION:   This Proverb is connected to agriculture. But that notwithstanding, it has many other areas of application in life. In agriculture, one of the systems of farming commonly practiced by African farmers is called 'Shifting Cultivation. In this method, a piece of land is cropped for one season and left to go fallow for two to three years before it could be used again.   However, this Proverb here offers a special recommendation for farmers. The counsel in the Proverb pertains to virgin lands or fertile forest. So, it recommends that such lands could be cropped for two seasons (instead of the usual one season, under Shifting - Cultivation described above); before ...

  /POEMS  IS THERE ANY NEED FOR WAR? The drums beat furiously  for war Inflammatory rhetorics from the West Fanning embers of destruction  to lay waste Nations whose cities hitherto peacefully rest. Is there any need for this war? Like cumulonimbus Demagogues' toxic memes -  clouds of the West Across skylines of the East  thunderous war portend Shall noble peace violence cruelly apprehend Before waton truce agreements  end genocidal wars? Though citizens prospered not   from the government  Now their peace is lost  as the ugly face of war torments The true cost of armaments  is the forgone human development  Desolate cities mourn devastated infrastructures  in the end. Is there any need for this war? As white and black colours sharply contrast  The East bloc technological development  the West offend How it becomes racial phobia  the world cannot comprehend Must the West in principles the East contend? ...

ETSAKOR PROVERB ETSAKOR DIALECT: Ughie ordior lor somhi ner ughie orgbormhi. TRANSLATION: Old way is better than new way. MEANING: The status quo, in terms of methods or familiar terrains, feel more comfortable than new techniques or innovation. LIFE APPLICATION:   This Proverb describes the human approach to some critical life issues; especially, people's attitude towards innovations or novel ideas. It exposes human apathy or apprehension about new ways or methods. For instance, they might be sceptical of safety, afraid of dangers in trials or doubtful of results.   The Proverb is neither critical of innovations, nor in any ways, an authoritative seal of approval on the status quo. But it is otherwise, a revelation of the fact that humans are more comfortable with the status quo than recent inventions. The more reason they readily accept existing techniques than embracing new ideas. Etsakor Proverbs Of The Edo People Of Nigeria.

CANDID Talks THE CHOICES WE MAKE...!   Some of the choices we make in life have catastrophic implications. When we make decisions without careful considerations and; especially, when we ignore wise counsel, we are faced with disastrous future consequences. The Instructor says; 'Wisdom is profitable to direct'!   Moses was happily married with three children; Or so it seemed. Of course, he rented a modest two-bedroom bungalow; where he had a small compound for himself. He had a Volkswagen Golf car with which he conveyed his children, to and from school. Many of his extended family members looked up to him for financial and material assistance.   Curiously, Moses chose to be a smoker! Some of us had tried in the past, to persuade him to drop this deadly habit without any success. Of course, you are aware of all the efforts we made in that regard. But he was always clever at defending any of his dogmatic life principles. Without a doubt, he often wins in such arguments. He h...

/POEMS /OUR HOUSE IN AFRICA Our house in Africa  A mud walled house which sat  On surroundings large but neat  Her cap of old thatch  And a fence of bamboo. Our house in Africa  Her facade marked by chalk paint  Generous clay on entrance lobby  The family courtyard spread  And a front gate of bamboo. Our house in Africa  She overlooked the iroko tree  Who grew strong from the ages  His strong boughs far spread  And against perilous tempest. Our house in Africa  Overlooked a virgin forest  And the iroko's cultured root  Evergreen tree whose foliage smoked  From religious fires at his foot. Our house in Africa  In those dark days birds nested  Many coloured and speckled birds  On the revered iroko of our ancestors  Who clothed the iroko tree. Our house in Africa  Today birds hover about the forest  And her defiled remains in total disconnect  From the Gmelina trees that now s...

/ POEMS THE BURDEN OF LIFE A breach in peace of mind  from a broken heart  Out of the burden life binds  upon all men on earth  Often grievous sorrows  Find solace in tear drops. When infant emotions ignite my smile  And pains sting me to cry  Though that world of babes was a while  How much sorrows do babes know to cry? Now should cries over life's despair  a solution be? None could a broken heart repair  with a well of tears  In battle all must prepare  to rise above falls and fears  Within the mind before victory  over life and death. Yet many braves cringe  at the word death  And the comfortable who binge  in their wealth  Even the vanquished on the fringe  of this unavoidable death  Who are pained to despise life  never gladly accept death. Death is the debt that all men owe  and all must pay  As the ultimate end to all things  to set them free  And to be fre...