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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.

The Ọ̀ọ̀ni lineage from Adéṣọjí Adérẹ̀mí to Adéyẹyè Ògúnwùsì, Aláàfin Lámídì Adéyẹmí III, the Aláké, the Awùjalẹ̀ Ṣikirú Adétọ́nà, the Ọba of Lagos, and how the office of ọba actually works in modern Nigeria.

The Ìyálóde, the Ìyálọ́jà, the Lóbùn of Ondó, the titled women inside the Ọ̀yọ́ palace, the documented cases of female ọba and regents, and what indirect rule did to all of it.

What mission schooling and Christian marriage did to women's economic independence, how indirect rule removed their political channel while continuing to tax them, and the Abẹ́òkúta Women's Union revolt that brought down an Aláké.

A comprehensive history of the Ọ̀yọ́ kingdom from its ancient origins at Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé and imperial consolidation to colonial bombardment and modern succession politics.

A comprehensive historical, institutional, and political study of Òkèhò, tracing its founding as an eleven-settlement defensive confederation, its dynastic succession, the 1916 anti-colonial rising, and its modern administrative development.

A structural and historical disambiguation of Yoruba royal, territorial, and collegiate titles, contrasting indigenous constitutional orders with the flattening umbrella term Chief.