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: Àìgbọ́fá là’ń w’òkè, Ifá kan ò sí ní párá.
Translation: Not knowing Ifa philosophy, we gaze up, but the Oracle is not in the rafters.
Proverb: Ayara adia ikot, Abasi abat isua.
Translation: The bully plunders the land but God counts the years.
Proverb: Mmaa dodoo kunu wu a, na ɛkɔm na aku no.
Translation: When a man with numerous wives dies, it is hunger that has killed him.
Proverb: À kúkú ù joyè, ó sàn ju “enu mi ò ká ìlú”.
Translation: Better not to be made a chief, than to say “I am incapable of controlling my people”.
Proverb: Aban bɛgu a, ɛfiri yam.
Translation: If the state is going to be destroyed, it is from the inside (the stomach).
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.
