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Handwoven textiles in pre-colonial Yorubaland operated as high-denomination currency, capital reserves, bridewealth payments, political tribute, and ancestral shrouds.

Nine Yorùbá proverbs datable by internal evidence to the pre-colonial cowrie-currency economy or to the early colonial period, kept current in speech as fixed idiom for amounts and situations no living speaker has transacted in.

The Yoruba orisa of wealth, cowrie currency, and market commerce, examined through her rituals, priesthoods, scholarly debates over gender, and diaspora transformations.

Guide to the seven files in the economy section, covering Yoruba market systems, trade routes, cowrie currency, esusu credit, craft guilds, cocoa agriculture, and internal labor systems including iwofa pawnship and slavery.

An analysis of precolonial Yoruba monetary systems, cowrie inflation mechanics, credit institutions, and the colonial transition to British sterling.

An analysis of the traditional Yoruba vigesimal and subtractive numeral system, cowrie currency computation, and anthropomorphic and relational units of measurement.