Look Around

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.

How food specifically, rather than trade in general, moved through periodic markets, how women's processing labor turned raw harvests into sellable food, how street food and the bùká became an urban institution, and what colonial taxation and modern supply chains did to that system.

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.