Ṣàwárí

The decade or more of memorisation before initiation, the stages of entry, how knowledge is checked between practitioners, and the real disagreement about women in Ifá.

Why Yoruba religion is so visible in the Americas, why the answer is timing rather than numbers, and how a late arrival into two late-abolishing societies produced unusually intact institutional transmission.

Who actually practises Yoruba medicine, how the specialisms divide, how a practitioner is trained and how long it takes, and how expertise is checked among practitioners themselves rather than by any outside body.