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The four-day week and the ritual calendar, how a Yoruba diagnosis of a problem actually proceeds, and an accurate account of aje, women's spiritual authority and the Gelede response.

Oyeronke Oyewumi's argument that gender was not the primary organizing category of Yoruba society, the serious criticisms of it, and the documented record of women's authority.

Seniority based on relative age and lineage entry constitutes the primary operational logic of social hierarchy, kinship terms, and interactive etiquette in Yoruba society.

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

Wándé Abímbọ́lá and the transcription of the Ifá corpus, Bọlájí Ìdòwú and diffused monotheism, J. Ọmọ́ṣadé Awólàlú, Jacob Olúpọ̀nà, Ṣóphì Olúwọlé, Ṣégun Gbádégẹṣin, Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí.

An analysis of how praise poetry functions as an oral historical archive, detailing what can be recovered from oríkì, methodological debates on chronology and gender, and structural historical silences.

Ìyá as a status and a philosophical category, the world's highest twinning rate and what the Yoruba built on it, what infertility actually costs a woman, àbíkú and the medical evidence behind it, and the ìyá abiye who delivered the children.

Where Yoruba women stand now: near-total exclusion from elected office alongside high literacy and professional attainment, the market titles absorbed into party politics, the diaspora, and the feminist scholarship Yoruba women have produced.

A comprehensive analysis of Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí's foundational critique of gender universality, her thesis on seniority in pre-colonial Ọ̀yọ́-Yorùbá society, and the major scholarly debates surrounding her work.

An analysis of how English kin categories distort indigenous Yorùbá social organization by replacing seniority and lineage membership with biological sex and nuclear family assumptions.