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The market as an economic, social and political institution, the four-day cycle, women's control of trade and what it bought them, guilds, esusu credit, family land, apprenticeship and the cocoa century.

A comprehensive historical study of the Yoruba kingdom of Ìlé-Olújí, examining its foundation myths, monarchical institution of the Jégun, administrative structures, sacred festivals, colonial transformations, and modern political economy.

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