Law

The procedural hierarchy, judicial venues, appellate processes, and enforcement mechanisms of pre-colonial Yoruba dispute resolution from the household to the royal palace court.

How traditional Yoruba jurisprudence establishes truth through metaphysical covenants, deity invocations, and judicial ordeals when material evidence is absent.

An analysis of Yoruba customary land tenure, the creation and governance of family land, rules of intestate distribution, and the structural transformations introduced by colonial legislation and the Land Use Act of 1978.

An analysis of pre-colonial Yoruba jurisprudence, detailing the classification of offences, the institutional preference for restitution, mechanisms of banishment, capital sanctions, and the colonial transformation of customary criminal law.