The Anaang (also spelled Annang) is a cultural and ethnic group native to "South South" geopolitical zone in Nigeria. It is also known as Western Ibibio, is part of the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster. It is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.
the chicken refuses to stay hungry. A soup that tastes good by licking must taste better by eating. ❖ When a baby grows, the crying changes. A wandering child cannot eat his mother's food when it is hot. Praise has killed the antelope. A chicken has no bad luck in the morning. ❖ A chicken that gets a sprained ankle is abandoned by its own mother. A word shoots up like the blade of grass. When bitterness preceeds sweetness, the sweetness becomes sweeter. While a bush fowl is being roasted, a chicken considers its own fate. When a man has no one to play with he plays with his enemy. ❖ A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot cut wood. Infancy teeth are not for chewing nuts. What has escaped from the leopard, still remains for the leopard. A mother refuses to go far lest her baby cries. Pepper has a beautiful face with an ugly temper. ❖ A river less vast than an ocean gets a bridge. If you speak with a cunning mouth, I listen with a cunning ear. A mother that has lost many children by death,
hates the idea of her child taking a nap. A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep. After a fish has matured, it ventures into the deep. ❖ A rat that gnaws pepper is desperate for food. A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep. When a leopard limps, a hare dares to demand for payment of a debt. When blood appears, it is apt to run. Drop by drop rains fills a pot. ❖ There is no discrimination in the forest of the dead. An animal that has just escaped from a trap fears a bent stick. Unity is strength, separation weakness. Generosity is wealth. A debtor's wife speaks the voice of her husband. ❖ A thorn does not pierce a rat. When you are rich, relation exists; if you are poor, relations desist. A man who puts his hand into the bee's hive gets stung by the bees. Medicine does not depend on the incantations of the sorcerer. A man who lives in two homes cannot catch a thief.❖ While a dead tree is expected to collapse,
a live one unexpectedly snaps. A lover is unmindful of any charcoal on the body.❖