Another proverb used in Things fall Apart
“Each group there represents a debt to someone, and each stroke is one hundred cowries. But he has not come to wake me up in the morning for it. I shall pay you, but not today. Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. I shall pay my big debts first.”
Here is food for your thought. To be diggested and shared.
