Linguistic and Cultural Hybriduty in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Proverbial Quoting or the Art of An Mbari House

“Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly,and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten (1958:5).”No doubt, those of you who have read Chinua Achebe’s Things FallApart still remember this comment that Achebe’s narrator andmouthpiece throws in the process of reporting a conversation betweenUnoka and Okoyo in the first pages of the book