Chinua Achebe: "Ogbuef Ezedudu, yang merupakan lelaki tertua di desa i...

"Ogbuef Ezedudu, yang merupakan lelaki tertua di desa itu, memberi tahu dua lelaki lain ketika mereka datang mengunjunginya bahwa hukuman karena melanggar Kedamaian Ani telah menjadi sangat ringan di klan mereka. "Tidak selalu begitu," katanya. "Ayah saya mengatakan kepada saya bahwa dia telah diberitahu bahwa di masa lalu seorang lelaki yang merusak perdamaian diseret ke tanah melalui desa sampai dia meninggal. Tetapi setelah beberapa saat kebiasaan ini dihentikan karena merusak perdamaian yang seharusnya melestarikan."

--- Chinua Achebe

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.