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The river orisa of Osogbo, the seventeenth of the orisa sent to earth and the one whose exclusion made the work fail, the founding covenant of a town, and the largest surviving Yoruba festival.
How many practitioners there actually are and why nobody knows, the real relationship with Christianity and Islam including genuine syncretism, Susanne Wenger and the Osogbo grove, the Ooni and traditional authority, and the return-to-tradition movement.
The sacred grove that is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the founding covenant behind it, and the Ìbọ̀lọ̀ and Epo towns of the Ọ̀yọ́ frontier: Ìwó, Èdè, Ìkirun, Ìlá-Ọ̀ràngún and their neighbours.
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.
Why the nineteenth-century Yoruba wars read differently depending on whether the source is oral tradition, academic history, or a colonial missionary account, illustrated with the Battle of Òsogbo's tactics and the record's treatment of Òwú's origins.
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.
A comprehensive scholarly treatment of Ọ̀ṣun, the Yoruba divinity of fresh waters, fertility, wealth, and sovereignty, examining her theology, oríkì, priesthood, and transatlantic developments.
An analysis of the life, sculptural interventions, spiritual initiations, and scholarly controversies surrounding Susanne Wenger (Àdùnní Olórìṣà) in Osogbo.
An exhaustive scholarly account of the annual Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo festival, its foundational origin traditions, liturgical stages, ritual offices, conservation challenges, and scholarly 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.
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.