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Farming, iron, cloth and glass; the market system and the women who ran it; cowrie money; and the routes that tied Yorubaland to the Sahara and the Atlantic.

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.

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

How market authority was structured, how trade wealth converted into political leverage and where that conversion was blocked, the credit system that financed women's trade, and the twentieth-century associations that turned market organisation into a political instrument.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs about the ọjà, the market, as an economic institution and a public stage, and about the traders, buyers and sellers who work it.

A comprehensive historical, institutional, and political account of Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde from its founding migrations and constitutional governance to its colonial conquest and modern status.

The political reign, commercial policies, military decline, and constitutional conflicts of Aláàfin Abíọ́dún, the late eighteenth-century monarch of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on adìrẹ eléko, the Yorùbá cassava-starch resist dyeing technique, covering its materials, chemistry, named master patterns, historical development, documented artists, museum collections, and archival debates.

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.

Precolonial Yoruba commerce operated through structured long-distance corridors, caravan logistics, toll systems, and coastal-savanna commodity exchanges.