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The Ọ̀ọ̀ni lineage from Adéṣọjí Adérẹ̀mí to Adéyẹyè Ògúnwùsì, Aláàfin Lámídì Adéyẹmí III, the Aláké, the Awùjalẹ̀ Ṣikirú Adétọ́nà, the Ọba of Lagos, and how the office of ọba actually works in modern Nigeria.
The kingdom whose courts outranked its king, the Awùjalẹ̀ and the Ọ̀ṣùgbó, Sungbo's Eredo, the trade monopoly that provoked the 1892 British expedition, and Ojúde Ọba.
How a Yoruba king's ritual duties as sacred mediator collide with his personal Christianity or Islam, and how Nigerian statute and constitutional law have tried, and largely failed, to settle the collision.
A comprehensive historical, institutional, and political account of Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde from its founding migrations and constitutional governance to its colonial conquest and modern status.
A comprehensive scholarly study of Agẹmọ, the supreme protective deity, chameleon messenger, and sixteen-seat masking institution of the Ìjẹ̀bú Yorùbá.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Ojúde Ọba in Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde, covering its nineteenth-century Islamic origins, royal liturgical sequence, age-grade societies, martial equestrianism, and contemporary socio-economic profile.
The premier annual federalizing ritual and festival of the Ìjẹ̀bú kingdom, uniting sixteen territorial priest-masqueraders under the spiritual leadership of Tami Ònìrè and the political patronage of the Awujalẹ̀.
A comprehensive historical, institutional, and linguistic study of the Ìjẹ̀bú subgroup of the Yorùbá people, examining monarchical statecraft, dialectology, territorial disputes, and ritual institutions.