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A dated timeline of Yoruba history in which every entry is marked for how well the date is actually established, since much early dating is contested.

Four thousand years compressed into one pass, from the Niger-Benue confluence through Ifẹ̀ and Ọ̀yọ́ to the nineteenth-century wars, conquest and the present, with dating confidence marked throughout.

A method note explaining what kind of evidence exists for Yoruba figures from the earliest traditions to 1900, why the oldest names cannot be treated as documented biography, and how this section marks the difference.