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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.

How Yoruba religious thought treats food as a channel of spiritual power, structured by deific and lineage prohibitions, the mechanics of sacrifice as a food transaction, and the ethics of eating together.

Twelve Yorùbá proverbs built on èèwọ̀ (taboo) and related concepts of the forbidden, showing how proverb-speech treats prohibition as binding, socially variable, and in at least one case, lethal to violate.

An examination of Orò as a male ancestral judicial institution, its acoustic manifestation through the bullroarer, ritual curfews, and transatlantic developments.

The premier annual federalizing ritual and festival of the Ìjẹ̀bú kingdom, uniting sixteen territorial priest-masqueraders under the spiritual leadership of Tami Ònìrè and the political patronage of the Awujalẹ̀.