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The Kakanfò who went to war over a constitutional principle and lost his town, and the hunter who led the Ẹ̀gbá refugees to the rock at Abẹ́òkúta and governed them without a king.
The refugee city under Olúmọ rock, its four townships each with its own ọba, the Aláké, and the Ẹ̀gbá United Government, which was the only Yoruba state Britain recognised as sovereign.
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.
An institutional and political history of the confederal city of Abeokuta from its founding around 1830 to the contemporary era.
A comprehensive scholarly study of the Ẹ̀gbá subgroup, detailing their forest origin traditions, 1830 resettlement at Abẹ́òkúta, quadripartite federal institutions, dialectology, and distinctive religious systems.