1. See Oyèrónkẹ Oyěwùmí, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
2. Adefisoye Oyesakin, “The Image of Women in Ifá Literary Corpus,” Nigeria Magazine 141 (1982).
3. Wande Abimbola, “Images of Women in the Ifá Literary Corpus,” Annals of the New York Academy of Science 810, no. 1 (1997).
4. Some Western feminist scholars such as Nancy Dowd have used the concept “man question” to analyze aspects of male disadvantage in the United States. N. E. Dowd, The Man Question: Male Subordination and Privilege (New York: New York University Press, 2010). But my own usage here is to encapsulate ideas of male dominance and male privilege that have come to define societies around the globe especially following European and American conquest. Thus in a comparative frame, the question in the “woman question” is one of subordination; the question in man question as I apply it to Yorùbá society and discourses is one of dominance.
5. Adélékè Adéẹkó, “‘Writing’ and ‘Reference’ in Ifá Divination Chants,” Oral Tradition 25, no. 2 (2010): 284.