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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.
How Yoruba religious thought treats food as a channel of spiritual power, structured by deific and lineage prohibitions, the mechanics of sacrifice as a food transaction, and the ethics of eating together.
Twelve Yorùbá proverbs built on èèwọ̀ (taboo) and related concepts of the forbidden, showing how proverb-speech treats prohibition as binding, socially variable, and in at least one case, lethal to violate.
An extensive scholarly examination of the Yoruba New Yam Festival (Ọdún Ìjẹsù), its ritual liturgy, agricultural theology, regional variations, and contemporary civic transformations.