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Òwe: Proverbs·19 min

Òwe on the Farm, the Bush and the Wild

Twenty-four Yorùbá proverbs on oko (the farm) and igbó (the bush or forest), showing farm labour as the measure of a person's worth and the bush as the domain proper to animals and to danger.

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