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Ijẹ̀bú, Ẹ̀gbá, Èkìtì, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ondó, Ọ̀wọ̀, Kétu, Sábẹ̀, Ìbàdàn, Abẹ́òkúta and Lagos, each with its own institutions rather than as branches of Ọ̀yọ́.

The fall of Ọ̀yọ́, the Ilọrin and Sokoto dimension, the Ọ̀wu war, the rise of Ìbàdàn, the Sixteen Years War at Kiriji, and the political map they left behind.

Lagos and Ibadan, the emigration wave, where traditional institutions actually stand in the Nigerian state, religion in the family, and an honest account of what has persisted and what has gone.

The town that replaced Ọ̀yọ́ as the dominant Yoruba power, the achieved-title constitution that let a farmer or an Ifá priest rise to command it, and the men who did.

The Ìjẹ̀ṣà commander who was twice an Ìbàdàn captive and ended as commander-in-chief of the eastern confederacy that fought Ìbàdàn to a standstill for sixteen years, and the diaspora arms network that made it possible.

The most powerful women in nineteenth-century Yorubaland, both of them large-scale slave traders, one killed by the ruler she had armed and the other exiled by a British consul, and the political office that made their power constitutional.

The pastor at Ọ̀yọ́ who wrote the book that made Yoruba history, the manuscript's loss and reconstruction, and the generation of Lagos men who first wrote Yoruba people into the record themselves.

How a nineteenth-century military camp grew into the largest indigenous city in tropical Africa, and how the Olúbàdàn rotational ladder works, which is the most unusual succession system in Yorubaland.

A technical and social study of adìrẹ, Yoruba indigo resist-dyed cloth, covering the resist techniques and their makers, indigo chemistry, named designs, the regional schools of Abẹ́òkúta, Ìbàdàn and Òṣogbo, and the twentieth-century revival led by Nike Davies-Okundaye and the contemporary market.

How Yorùbá armies were organised and commanded, from the mounted nobility of Old Ọ̀yọ́ to the achieved war-chief ladders of the nineteenth-century successor states, and how campaigns were recruited, supplied and fought.

How nineteenth-century Yoruba warfare remade society, through refugee city-founding, the economics of captive and pawn labour, the Ajele resident-administrator system, and new patterns of stratification and gender.

A comparative look at the nineteenth-century Yoruba war leaders, what set the Ọ̀yọ́-derived Kakanfò autocrats apart from Ìbàdàn's achieved-title men, and the frontline commanders below the top rank who do not have their own dedicated file.

A scholarly analysis of Yoruba military structures, tracing imperial command in Oyo, meritocratic promotional ladders in nineteenth-century Ibadan, and regional variations across Egba, Ijebu, and Ekiti formations.

An examination of Yoruba women during nineteenth-century warfare as military financiers, logisticians, captives, slaveholders, and political leaders under changing militarized state structures.

The diplomatic settlements, British interventions, demobilisation crises, and socioeconomic transformations that ended the nineteenth-century Yoruba wars and restructured political authority under colonial rule.

The historical development, political institutions, military leadership, and administrative evolution of Ibadan from its nineteenth-century war camp origins to the contemporary metropolis.

A comprehensive scholarly history of Òṣogbo, examining its founding covenant, the Ataoja dynasty, the decisive 1840 battle, its twentieth-century artistic renaissance, and the sacred grove.

The life, political career, economic empire, and contested death of the nineteenth-century merchant who became the second Iyalode of Ibadan.

The political career, military rule, and historical debates surrounding Kurunmi of Ijaye, the supreme military commander of nineteenth-century Oyo.

An overview of the life, scholarship, methodological innovations, and historiographical debates surrounding the historian Toyin Fálọlá.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on adìrẹ eléko, the Yorùbá cassava-starch resist dyeing technique, covering its materials, chemistry, named master patterns, historical development, documented artists, museum collections, and archival debates.

Technical processes, material substrates, gender dynamics, and museum histories of Yoruba raffia-tied and needle-stitched indigo resist textiles.

The botanical, chemical, and socioeconomic structures of traditional Yoruba indigo fermentation dyeing, resist techniques, and guild organization.

The occasions on which oríkì is actually chanted, the royal awakening and market-day forms, and how payment shapes what a performer says, illustrated with texts the genre files in this section do not carry.

Bolanle Awe's case for oríkì as historical evidence, worked through two towns' founding oríkì, with a plain statement of what a historian can and cannot recover from the form.

Town praise for a war camp, a dyers' sanctuary and a warrior-founded hill town, each read for the specific civic identity its oríkì stakes a claim to.

A historical clarification untangling the distinct periods, geographical relocations, and state structures of classical Ife, Old and New Oyo, the Owu crisis, nineteenth-century Ibadan, and coastal Lagos.