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The kinds of evidence historians use to reconstruct the Yoruba past, what each kind can and cannot prove, and how one 1921 book shaped everything written since.
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.
An analysis of how praise poetry functions as an oral historical archive, detailing what can be recovered from oríkì, methodological debates on chronology and gender, and structural historical silences.
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.
The life, diplomatic mediation, and historiographical legacy of the Anglican clergyman whose posthumously published 1921 masterwork established the foundation of modern Yoruba historical writing.