We have accepted that the nuclear family is the only family there is or should be. But the extended family including the ancestors that have died and want to be respected beyond their deaths makes more sense. Because humans live transgenerationally, learn from the achievements and the sufferings of those who lived before us. History and family history is a contract among generations. Oyevumi has researched the Yoruba history of ideas and of speaking and thinking.
Anybody interested in hereditary studies whether Western or African should tackle this reader.