A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

~ Fennel Hudson

Fennel Hudson Heritage Old Fashioned Traditional Tales Values Wisdom

Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh Africa Children Good Friends Little Still Owing Me Goodbye Traditional Tales Twenty Good Years

The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh Africa Children Feast Little Still Owing Me Goodbye Traditional Tales

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.

~ Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak Children Children S Literature Fairy Tales Fear Feelings Imagination Incest Oedipus Complex Rolling Stones Traditional Tales

Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?” There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh Africa Crime Little Children Lizards Still Owing Me Goodbye Traditional Tales

Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh Africa Grandma Little Children Nigeria Primary School Tears Traditional Tales Uromi