Ṣàwárí

The oba and why Yoruba kingship was sacred and constrained at the same time, the chieftaincy title system, the palace, the town council, Ogboni as judiciary and check, and how a king was actually removed.

Thirty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on the crown, the throne, the palace and the offices around them, on what a king owns and what he cannot forbid, and on how a person is placed on a throne or kept off one, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.

Yorùbá proverbs built on the king's palace, cult shrines, and the secret groves of Orò and the egúngún masquerade cult, showing these as real, bounded, and differently governed places within the Yorùbá town.