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Sixteen Yorùbá proverbs on ìlú, the town, showing it as the site of public reputation, of collective liability for disruptive individuals, and of the deference owed to place.

The complete classification of oríkì by subject, orílẹ̀ through eranko, with a worked text for each kind and the boundary cases that show the categories are not airtight.

Town praise for a war camp, a dyers' sanctuary and a warrior-founded hill town, each read for the specific civic identity its oríkì stakes a claim to.

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.