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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.

— Nathaniel Fadipe

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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.

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