Ṣàwárí

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.

How knowledge was taught and preserved before schools existed, the memorization systems, the specialist knowledge classes, initiation as pedagogy, and what mission and colonial schooling replaced.

How Yoruba oral artists are trained, which genres are open to whom, how gender divides the field, how performers are paid, and the named artists the scholarship documents.

Who actually practises Yoruba medicine, how the specialisms divide, how a practitioner is trained and how long it takes, and how expertise is checked among practitioners themselves rather than by any outside body.

The institutional organization of Yoruba artisanal crafts, commercial associations, lineage production, apprenticeship systems, and the colonial transition from kinship workshops to territorial guilds.

An analysis of the pedagogical structures, initiation rites, duration, and esoteric boundaries governing Ifá diviners, herbalists, and deity priests in Yoruba tradition.