Ṣàwárí

What mission schooling and Christian marriage did to women's economic independence, how indirect rule removed their political channel while continuing to tax them, and the Abẹ́òkúta Women's Union revolt that brought down an Aláké.

What the historical record establishes about West African inoculation knowledge, what the Yoruba actually did about smallpox, the 1907 ban on the Sonponna priesthood and what the evidence for and against the deliberate-spread charge really amounts to, and what the suppression cost.

What A. B. Ellis's 1894 collection contains, why its tale texts are usable, and exactly where its colonial framing has to be refused.

What John Parkinson's Ọ̀yọ́ tale collection contains, why its stated provenance is unusually candid for its period, and how to read its editor's comparative footnotes.