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: Kò sí ẹni tí kìí rẹ̀.
Translation: There is no one who is never exhausted.
Proverb: Orí la fi ń’mẹ́ran láwo.
Translation: With the head (luck), we pick the good meat in the stew.
Proverb: Ayara adia ikot, Abasi abat isua.
Translation: The bully plunders the land but God counts the years.
Proverb: Simba mwenda pole/kimya ndiye mla nyama.
Translation: The lion that moves silently is the one that eats meat.
Proverb: W’adaka si aburokyire a, deɛ ɛwɔ mu nyinaa wonim.
Translation: If your possessions are abroad, you know what is yours (wherever it may be).
Proverb: Polepole ndio mwendo.
Translation: Slowly slowly is the movement of life.
