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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.

Guide to the eight files on the farms, kitchens, dishes, drinks, ritual food practice, markets, and diaspora afterlife of Yoruba cuisine, and the order to read them in.

The farmland typology, land tenure, and cooperative and unfree labor institutions that produced Yoruba staple crops, and how Atlantic-introduced maize and cassava reshaped the food base from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

What is and is not documented about Yoruba star knowledge, the agricultural year and how it was kept, and the soil and land classification which has been tested against laboratory soil science and largely held up.

Òrìṣà Oko is the Yoruba deity of agriculture, earth fertility, judicial arbitration, and anti-witchcraft justice, centered historically in the town of Ìràwò.

An extensive scholarly examination of the Yoruba New Yam Festival (Ọdún Ìjẹsù), its ritual liturgy, agricultural theology, regional variations, and contemporary civic transformations.

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.

How the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century expansion of cocoa farming restructured Yoruba land tenure, labor arrangements, gender roles, and intergenerational wealth accumulation.

A comprehensive guide to the six files covering Yoruba metallurgy, glassmaking, textile technology, architecture, agriculture, and vigesimal mathematics.

Yoruba agricultural systems rely on precise mound construction, thermal mulching, sensory soil classification, layered intercropping, and specialized post-harvest preservation.