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This book is a collection of 27 papers presented at a conference on Yoruba history and culture held in 2004. Overwhelmingly, the papers are by Yoruba scholars, a substantial majority of them based in Nigerian universities. The disciplinary range is wide, ranging from literature to law and the social and environmental sciences, with only a handful of papers from historians. The papers are also extremely heterogeneous in subject-matter: Yoruba newspapers, urban politics in Lagos, the Bamidele Muslim sect, Awolowo's political philosophy, precolonial law and dispute settlement, '419' cybercrime, OPC vigilantism, road traffic accidents, AIDS, proverbs in relation to health events, abortion, food storage and processing, Yoruba agriculture, women in Yoruba culture, age stratification and marriage, domestic gender roles, Yoruba associations, dual residence patterns, school curricula. While a good many (it has to be said) are rather slight, there...