Ṣàwárí

Ìyá as a status and a philosophical category, the world's highest twinning rate and what the Yoruba built on it, what infertility actually costs a woman, àbíkú and the medical evidence behind it, and the ìyá abiye who delivered the children.

Fourteen Yorùbá proverbs on what a wrongdoer is owed once guilt is settled, on forgiveness as a practical act rather than a sentiment, and on consequence as something that arrives on its own, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.