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What is regarding very highly Among the Igbo? What are the palm oil with which words are eaten? (chapter 1)

What is regarding very highly Among the Igbo? What are the palm oil with which words are eaten? (chapter 1)

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Stories and conversation is regarded highly. Achebe uses language (proverbs) as a metaphor for food that the Igbo people need.

"Among the Igbo, the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten" (Chapter1).

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