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The categories of Yorùbá names, the naming ceremony, the names given for birth circumstances and for children thought to return, and a worked list of common names with their literal meanings.

Courtship and ìdána, bridewealth, how polygynous households actually worked from the inside, divorce, fostering, and what Christianity, Islam and the city changed.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs about the household, the lineage, the father's house and the obligations that follow from being born into a particular family.