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How Ọ̀yọ́ rose to dominate the western Yoruba region and beyond, the constitutional machinery that constrained its king, the cavalry that made it work, and why both eventually failed.
How Fon and Ewe Vodún relates to Yoruba orisa tradition, why Vodún is its own system and not Yoruba religion renamed, what Fa and Ifa share and where they diverge, and the Ketu corridor that carried both across the Atlantic.
The Yoruba kingdoms that ended up in Benin Republic and Togo, their destruction by Dahomey, the Anàgó name and where it comes from, and what national status they hold today.
A comprehensive history of the Yoruba kingdom of Kétu, covering its founding traditions from Ilé-Ifẹ̀, dynastic succession, political institutions, conflicts with Dahomey, colonial partition, and contemporary cultural legacy.
The political reign, commercial policies, military decline, and constitutional conflicts of Aláàfin Abíọ́dún, the late eighteenth-century monarch of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire.
The history, mathematical structure, liturgical divergence, and contemporary institutionalization of the Fon, Gun, and Mina divination system known as Fá in the Republic of Benin.
A historical, linguistic, and socio-religious examination of the western Yorùbá subgroup formerly known as Ẹ̀gbádò and officially redesignated as Yewa in 1995.