Igala Proverbs as Bastions of Societal Harmony

Abstract

This paper “Igala Proverbs as Bastions of Societal Harmony” is fundamentally a brisk quest into this all-interesting and all-important genre of communication among the Igala people of eastern Kogi State of Nigeria. This language group, like many of its counterparts in Africa has many of their moral, social, spiritual and sundry values embedded within these proverbs. Our principal task in this paper is to attempt searching into the deeper signification of such proverbs by means of dialectical and phenomenological methods of investigation. This would enable us educate our audience on the riches of the Igala culture, with the overarching aim of not only keeping records on such value-laden aspects of our culture for the sake of posterity but also focusing on the different dimensions of the usage of proverbs for societal harmony.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n6p259