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There is no Yoruba church. Òrìṣà devotion is organised town by town and lineage by lineage, with local priesthoods, local shrines, and local festivals, and this page explains how those structures work.

The market as an economic, social and political institution, the four-day cycle, women's control of trade and what it bought them, guilds, esusu credit, family land, apprenticeship and the cocoa century.

An examination of the Yoruba market as a nexus of civic governance, trade regulation, female political authority, and sacred civic peace.

Aṣọ ẹbí is the Yoruba institution of buying and wearing identical cloth as a family, association, or friendship group at a celebration, and the economic and social system built around that single act of coordinated dress.

An examination of Yoruba defensive war medicine, exploring the physical preparation of ayeta and related charms, practitioner ontologies, tactical battlefield consequences, and critical historiographical debates.

A comprehensive scholarly examination of modern Yoruba diasporic communities across the United Kingdom and continental Europe, detailing migration waves, institutional structures, religious adaptations, and systemic divergences from homeland practices.

The complete classification of oríkì by subject, orílẹ̀ through eranko, with a worked text for each kind and the boundary cases that show the categories are not airtight.

The two rarest classes of orikì in this section, praise addressed to a person's heavenly spirit companions and praise addressed to an animal, presented with honest limits on both.

The institutional organization of Yoruba artisanal crafts, commercial associations, lineage production, apprenticeship systems, and the colonial transition from kinship workshops to territorial guilds.