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The restricted societies that sit alongside orisa worship: Oro and its night curfew, the Ijebu Agemo, the Ogboni earth society and its judicial role, described soberly and with the limits of public knowledge stated.

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 oba and why Yoruba kingship was sacred and constrained at the same time, the chieftaincy title system, the palace, the town council, Ogboni as judiciary and check, and how a king was actually removed.

The kingdom whose courts outranked its king, the Awùjalẹ̀ and the Ọ̀ṣùgbó, Sungbo's Eredo, the trade monopoly that provoked the 1892 British expedition, and Ojúde Ọba.

How a Yoruba king's ritual duties as sacred mediator collide with his personal Christianity or Islam, and how Nigerian statute and constitutional law have tried, and largely failed, to settle the collision.

An analysis of Ìjẹ̀bú vertical-loom patterned title cloths and shoulder sashes, examining their supplementary-weft iconography, ritual roles in Òṣùgbó elderhood, and regional trade across coastal West Africa.

A comprehensive historical, institutional, and political account of Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde from its founding migrations and constitutional governance to its colonial conquest and modern status.

A comprehensive historical examination of Ṣagamu, from its founding as a nineteen-century defensive confederation of thirteen Remo settlements to its political evolution, royal institutions, and contemporary urban status.

A comprehensive scholarly history of Ìkọ̀rọdú, detailing its seventeenth-century foundation, dynastic institutions, nineteenth-century regional warfare, and modern administrative development.

An examination of the settlement, dynastic evolution, governance structures, and modern political history of the five confederated quarters of Ìjẹ̀bú-Ìgbó.

A comprehensive historical survey of Ìsarà-Remo, detailing its founding traditions, the Odémọ̀ monarchy, indigenous governance institutions, 20th-century political transformations, and contemporary status.

An examination of Orò as a male ancestral judicial institution, its acoustic manifestation through the bullroarer, ritual curfews, and transatlantic developments.

An exhaustive scholarly investigation into the Ogboni (Òṣùgbó) institution, the sacred cosmology of Earth (Ilẹ̀), and its judicial and constitutional governance across Yorùbá polities.

An examination of the Yorùbá Orò ritual complex, focusing on the aerophone mechanics of the bullroarer (àjá Orò), ancestral judicial executions through Ògbóni and Ọ̀ṣùgbó tribunals, and the socio-spatial politics of civic curfews.

A comprehensive historical, institutional, and linguistic study of the Ìjẹ̀bú subgroup of the Yorùbá people, examining monarchical statecraft, dialectology, territorial disputes, and ritual institutions.

An examination of the Àwórì Yorùbá subgroup, detailing their migration traditions, territorial distribution across Lagos and Ogun States, chieftaincy systems, dialectology, and ritual institutions.

A comprehensive scholarly study of the Rẹ́mọ Yorùbá subgroup, examining settlement history, political institutions, linguistic features, ritual systems, and the historical sovereignty dispute with Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde.

Paired brass casting staffs of the Yoruba Ògbóni society, examining lost-wax metallurgy, gendered iconology, institutional judicial authority, and collection provenance.

The procedural hierarchy, judicial venues, appellate processes, and enforcement mechanisms of pre-colonial Yoruba dispute resolution from the household to the royal palace court.