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What aya and ọkọ actually encode, why a married woman never stops belonging to her father's lineage, the politics of co-wives, widowhood and inheritance under Yoruba customary law, and the grounds on which a woman could leave.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs on bearing and raising children, the duties of parents, the training of the young, and what passes from one generation to the next.

Twenty Yorùbá proverbs on ogún (inheritance) and claim to patrimony, drawn largely from Owomoyela's dedicated section "On the right to one's patrimony and to property," focused on land, farm, throne, and territorial claim rather than movable wealth.

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.