Chinua Achebe on Igbo people

“Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”

“The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.”