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A documented history of the process by which Yorùbá religion was reframed as satanic, from the missionary encounter through colonial vocabulary, Nigerian Pentecostalism and Nollywood, followed by what the tradition actually holds.

How missionary and colonial translation produced the English words now used for Yorùbá religion, what Crowther's Bible did to Yorùbá religious vocabulary, how Èṣù came to mean Satan, and how to read older sources critically.

The CMS mission and Crowther, how and why Yoruba people converted to two world religions, the British annexation, indirect rule and what it did to kingship, and the making of "Yoruba" as one identity.

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.

Biography, military campaigns, and historiographical debates surrounding Ògèdèńgbé Agbógungbóró, the commander-in-chief of the Ẹ̀kìtìparapọ̀ confederacy during the Kiriji War.

A historical analysis of structural transformations, theological shifts, and archival biases in Yoruba religious practice from pre-1830 lineage shrines to contemporary global networks.

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.