Parcourir

The agricultural base, yam and its ritual centrality, the staple dishes and their regional variation, palm oil, food taboos and their lineage and orisa basis, and the social meaning of feeding people.

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.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs on the duties of host and visitor, the structural vulnerability of the stranger in a Yorùbá town, and the reciprocal etiquette that hospitality is built on.