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How many practitioners there actually are and why nobody knows, the real relationship with Christianity and Islam including genuine syncretism, Susanne Wenger and the Osogbo grove, the Ooni and traditional authority, and the return-to-tradition movement.

Where Yoruba women stand now: near-total exclusion from elected office alongside high literacy and professional attainment, the market titles absorbed into party politics, the diaspora, and the feminist scholarship Yoruba women have produced.

Oríkì composed and performed today, for a doctor, for a masked pop musician, and for the Christian God, showing the form still generating new texts rather than only preserving old ones.