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Ijẹ̀bú, Ẹ̀gbá, Èkìtì, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ondó, Ọ̀wọ̀, Kétu, Sábẹ̀, Ìbàdàn, Abẹ́òkúta and Lagos, each with its own institutions rather than as branches of Ọ̀yọ́.

The Efe and Gelede masked spectacle of the western Yoruba, what it says about women's spiritual power, why it is one of the most conceptually sophisticated things in the tradition, and its UNESCO inscription.

The history and structure of Candomblé in Brazil, why the nations matter, the great Bahian terreiros and the women who led them, the regional variants, Umbanda as a distinct formation, and the current situation under evangelical pressure.

How Fon and Ewe Vodún relates to Yoruba orisa tradition, why Vodún is its own system and not Yoruba religion renamed, what Fa and Ifa share and where they diverge, and the Ketu corridor that carried both across the Atlantic.

The Yoruba kingdoms that ended up in Benin Republic and Togo, their destruction by Dahomey, the Anàgó name and where it comes from, and what national status they hold today.

A comprehensive history of the Yoruba kingdom of Kétu, covering its founding traditions from Ilé-Ifẹ̀, dynastic succession, political institutions, conflicts with Dahomey, colonial partition, and contemporary cultural legacy.

The Yoruba orisa of hunting, stealth, forest strategy, and unerring justice, from his royal center in Ketu to his transformed status in the Atlantic diaspora.

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the Yoruba Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ masking tradition, its theological grounding in female spiritual power, performance structures, origin debates, and diasporic trajectories.

A comprehensive scholarly examination of Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ masquerade performance, its cosmological veneration of female mystical power, ritual structure, iconography, origin traditions, and contemporary heritage status.

An analysis of Candomblé Ketu in Bahia, covering its nineteenth-century origins, institutional kinship structures, ritual practices, divergence from West African prototypes, and historiographical debates.

An examination of the historical formation, institutional structures, ritual practices, demographic realities, and scholarly debates defining Yoruba cultural and religious life in contemporary Brazil.

An authoritative overview of the Kétu subgroup, covering their migration traditions, political institutions, dialectal phonology, borderland history, and religious institutions.

A comprehensive study of Yoruba Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ headdresses, examining their sculptural techniques, ritual appeasement of female spiritual power, named carving lineages, and museum provenance histories.