What then is a postproverbial, or to address the form in the plural sense, what are postproverbials? Postproverbials are radicalized proverbial utterances which subvert the logic and the pattern of conventional proverbs...
Proverb: Ba di ba vana mo, se ba ba tɛa ba vana.
Translation: We exclude others when we eat food, but we do not exclude them when we talk about issues.
Proverb: Ko na maŋe ko pa mo, mo boŋe we mo mo yei banzure.
Translation: When things go well for you, you think it is because you know how to marry well.
Proverb: Ara kìí sá f’ára, bíí ti kúrúnà kọ́.
Translation: Bodies do not run from bodies, not with scabies infection.
Proverb: Ẹni tí a bá torí ẹ̀ pa adìyẹ, iwe ni ó ń’jẹ.
Translation: The person on whose behalf the hen is sacrificed, eats the gizzard.
Proverb: Ọ̀nà kan ò wọjà, tí obìnrin fi ń gbóndó tà.
Translation: There are several routes to the market of success; such that makes a woman to sell her grounding mortar.
Proverb: Ilé Ọba tó jó, ẹwà ló bù kún un.
Translation: The palace that is burnt will make a more magnificent edifice.
