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Though married women may not have any inheritance right to their husbands' property, they are autonomous in the sense that they can accumulate their own properties, to which their husbands cannot lay claim.

— Nathaniel Fadipe

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Proverb is the horse of thought; when thought is lost, it is to proverb one turns for its recovery.

The extended-family unit is a primary instrument for the maintenance of socio-economic security and social order.

The prevalent form of human dwelling-place in Yorubaland is a collection of apartments for individual families. These apartments together are known as the compound, or to the Yoruba as agbo ile.

The existence of different systems of religious values among the Yoruba has modified traditional concepts of blood and affinal relationship.

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