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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.

Forty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on the ọmọlúàbí ideal, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs on what age and seniority are owed, what they owe back, and the limits of both.