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The three Yoruba terms for destiny, how destiny is received, and the sustained scholarly argument over whether Yoruba destiny is fatalistic, with the case that it is negotiable rather than fixed.

The town that replaced Ọ̀yọ́ as the dominant Yoruba power, the achieved-title constitution that let a farmer or an Ifá priest rise to command it, and the men who did.

How a nineteenth-century military camp grew into the largest indigenous city in tropical Africa, and how the Olúbàdàn rotational ladder works, which is the most unusual succession system in Yorubaland.

How Yorùbá armies were organised and commanded, from the mounted nobility of Old Ọ̀yọ́ to the achieved war-chief ladders of the nineteenth-century successor states, and how campaigns were recruited, supplied and fought.

A scholarly analysis of Yoruba military structures, tracing imperial command in Oyo, meritocratic promotional ladders in nineteenth-century Ibadan, and regional variations across Egba, Ijebu, and Ekiti formations.

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.

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Ojúde Ọba in Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde, covering its nineteenth-century Islamic origins, royal liturgical sequence, age-grade societies, martial equestrianism, and contemporary socio-economic profile.