Ṣàwárí

Courtship and ìdána, bridewealth, how polygynous households actually worked from the inside, divorce, fostering, and what Christianity, Islam and the city changed.

What aya and ọkọ actually encode, why a married woman never stops belonging to her father's lineage, the politics of co-wives, widowhood and inheritance under Yoruba customary law, and the grounds on which a woman could leave.

An analysis of how English kin categories distort indigenous Yorùbá social organization by replacing seniority and lineage membership with biological sex and nuclear family assumptions.