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How knowledge was taught and preserved before schools existed, the memorization systems, the specialist knowledge classes, initiation as pedagogy, and what mission and colonial schooling replaced.

What greeting encodes and why it is so elaborate, respect and seniority in daily conduct, hospitality, the full content of omoluabi, and how shame and reputation actually enforced behaviour.

Destiny, character, the inner head, what a person is, and how Yorùbá ethics works, in plain language.

Forty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on the ọmọlúàbí ideal, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.