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Courtship and ìdána, bridewealth, how polygynous households actually worked from the inside, divorce, fostering, and what Christianity, Islam and the city changed.

The chant a Yoruba bride performs in the days before she leaves her father's house, its three-part structure, the social situation that produces it, and what she actually says about the marriage ahead of her.

An examination of Yoruba women's oral verbal arts, focusing on bridal laments, praise poetry custody, lullabies, and domestic work songs.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs about courtship, the bond between husband and wife, and the frictions and duties of the polygynous marriage itself.

A cautionary tale in which a beautiful woman who refuses every suitor marries a stranger assembled from borrowed limbs, and escapes his house by stuffing the watchman's alarm horn with oiled bean cakes.

A tale from a country where the inhabitants are heads without bodies, in which one Head borrows a body, arms and legs to win a bride, and loses her when he returns them on the way home.