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The fall of Ọ̀yọ́, the Ilọrin and Sokoto dimension, the Ọ̀wu war, the rise of Ìbàdàn, the Sixteen Years War at Kiriji, and the political map they left behind.

The smith and his god, the paired brass figures that carried the authority of the Ogboni society, the women who built pots without a wheel, the carved and burnt calabash, and the leather trades of Ilorin and Oyo.

The Ọ̀yọ́ war commander whose revolt broke the empire, the Fulani scholar whose community he armed, and how Ìlọrin passed from a Yoruba town under a Yoruba general to an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.

How an Ọ̀yọ́ military outpost passed from Àfọ̀njá to a Fulani emirate inside the Sokoto Caliphate, what the sources actually establish about that sequence, and the four positions people hold about Ìlọrin's identity today.

How Islam took root in Yorùbáland centuries before Christianity, how Ìlọrin became its scholarly capital, and how Yorùbá Muslims built their own schools, associations, and clerical practice alongside the older òrìṣà tradition.

A comprehensive history of Ìlọrin, tracing its origins from an Ọ̀yọ́ frontier settlement to an Islamic emirate, its political institutions, dynastic succession, and modern transformation.

The career of the Oyo imperial general whose rebellion at Ilorin accelerated the disintegration of the empire and led to the creation of the Ilorin Emirate.

Four more towns' civic praise, including Ilorin's oriki naming its own conversion from an Egungun-owning town to one where the horse replaced the ancestral masquerade.