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The Yoruba court hierarchy from the compound to the palace, how evidence and oaths worked, why the aim was restoration rather than blame, and what the colonial and Nigerian legal systems did to all of it.

The market as an economic, social and political institution, the four-day cycle, women's control of trade and what it bought them, guilds, esusu credit, family land, apprenticeship and the cocoa century.

The farmland typology, land tenure, and cooperative and unfree labor institutions that produced Yoruba staple crops, and how Atlantic-introduced maize and cassava reshaped the food base from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Guide to the five files on Yorùbá jurisprudence, covering customary legal principles, courts and dispute resolution, evidentiary oaths and ordeals, communal land tenure, and restorative criminal justice.

An analysis of Yoruba customary land tenure, the creation and governance of family land, rules of intestate distribution, and the structural transformations introduced by colonial legislation and the Land Use Act of 1978.

How the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century expansion of cocoa farming restructured Yoruba land tenure, labor arrangements, gender roles, and intergenerational wealth accumulation.