For about three decades now, feminist agitations over the status and role of women, especially in Western countries, have pushed gender issues to the front burner in academic discourse. In African countries, however, the story is different. This book, based on a microcosm of the African race – the Yoruba, whom the author describes as arguably the most researched ethnic group in Africa, discusses the issue of gender in Yoruba oral literature, focusing on the contents of identified genres and how these contents are determined by the nature of the context that produced them. These identified genres are analyzed under various thematic components such as timing, social relations economics, political engagements maintaining balance/ complementarity, which represent the other realms of human activity that hinge on gender theory and practice among the Yoruba. It is recommended for gender activists, students and researchers in the social sciences as well as in language and linguistics.