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The orisa of smallpox and of the earth's diseases, the naming taboo, the priesthood's control of epidemic, and the 1907 British colonial ban on the cult which is one of the most consequential state interventions in Yoruba religion.
What the historical record establishes about West African inoculation knowledge, what the Yoruba actually did about smallpox, the 1907 ban on the Sonponna priesthood and what the evidence for and against the deliberate-spread charge really amounts to, and what the suppression cost.