Ṣàwárí

Guide to the six files in the foundations section, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the ten files in the language section, covering the Yorùbá language itself, its sound and tone system, writing, etymology, proverbs, praise poetry, names, translation bias, literature, and learning resources.

Guide to the eleven files in the history section, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

Index to the section covering the structure of the Yoruba cosmos, the supreme being debate, destiny and character, sacrifice, personhood, knowledge, and the figure of Esu.

Guide to the eleven files covering Ifá as divination system, literary corpus, binary structure, profession, and living practice.

Index and reading guide to the orisa section, covering what an orisa is, how worship is organized, each major orisa, the masquerade and cult societies, the festival calendar, the ancestors, and the tradition today.

Guide to the thirteen files covering Yoruba aesthetics, sculpture, textiles, beadwork, craft, architecture, body arts, music, dance and theatre, with reading paths and a note on what is contested.

Guide to the diaspora section, what each file covers, the argument that runs through all of them, and how to read the section in order or by interest.

Guide to the twelve files on Yoruba social institutions, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the eight files in the onboarding section, what each covers, and which to read first depending on what brought you here.

Alphabetical glossary of Yorùbá terms used across the corpus, each with diacritics, a literal gloss where one is documented, a plain definition, and the section that treats it fully.

Section guide to the thirty-three files covering precolonial founders, nineteenth-century warlords, returnees, nationalists, intellectuals, artists, and modern diaspora figures across Yoruba history.

Guide to the gazetteer, what each file covers, the argument that runs through the section, and how to read it in order or by interest.

A map of the Yoruba oral genres treated in this section, what each file holds, and where the neighbouring sections carry the material this one does not duplicate.

Guide to the six files on how Christianity, Islam, and indigenous Òrìṣà tradition are actually practiced, contested, and governed in Yorùbáland today, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the eight files on the farms, kitchens, dishes, drinks, ritual food practice, markets, and diaspora afterlife of Yoruba cuisine, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the seven files covering the Yoruba dress system, aṣọ òkè and adìrẹ technique in depth, the gèlè headwrap, personal beadwork, the aṣọ ẹbí group-dress economy, and contemporary fashion, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

Guide to the five files in the language corpus section, covering text and speech datasets, natural language processing, lexicography, descriptive grammars, and language pedagogy and policy.

Guide to the ten files on women, gender constructs, political titles, economic institutions, ritual authority, kinship, and historical resistance across Yorùbá history.

Guide to the six files covering Yoruba military organisation, weapons and fortification, the social and economic consequences of nineteenth-century war, campaign historiography, war ritual and medicine, and named field commanders, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

Guide to the twelve files in the medicine and indigenous sciences section, covering pharmaceutical botany, clinical practice, bone-setting, psychiatry, obstetrics, epidemic management, metallurgy, numeracy, and contemporary regulation.

Comprehensive guide and analytical index to the eighty-one thematic files comprising the Yorùbá proverb corpus.

Comprehensive guide and reading pathways for the forty in-depth historical profiles of Yorùbá urban centres, kingdoms, and frontier settlements.

Guide to the thirty files in the orisa deep section, covering primordial divinities, deified dynastic figures, metaphysical forces, nature spirits, and masking institutions.

Guide to the thirty biographical, historical, and historiographical studies in the People Deep section, examining the individual agents who shaped Yorùbá civilization.

Guide to the eighteen files in the festivals section, examining royal renewals, masquerade complexes, ancestral commemorations, agrarian rites, and urban spectacles across Yorubaland.

Systematic guide to the sixteen principal Odù of the Ifá corpus, outlining their metaphysical principles, regional seniority debates, literary structures, and suggested reading paths.

Guide to the fifteen files in the deep diaspora section, covering transatlantic Yorùbá ritual traditions, regional adaptations, continental neighbours, and multidirectional return circulation.

A comprehensive guide to the thirty files examining the distinct regional, political, dialectal, and cultural subgroups across the Yorùbá world.

Guide to the twenty files in the visual arts, material culture, and organology section, examining Ife antiquity, sacred carving, masquerade arts, textiles, architecture, and musical speech surrogacy.