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What Egúngún actually is, why it is a lineage institution rather than an orisa cult, how the costume and the taboo on touching it work, and how the tradition has been misrepresented.

The Yoruba four-day week and the orisa days, the annual festival cycle, and detailed treatment of Osun-Osogbo, Sango, Olojo, Itapa, Igogo, Agemo and Ojude Oba including their present condition under tourism.

An exhaustive scholarly account of the annual Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo festival, its foundational origin traditions, liturgical stages, ritual offices, conservation challenges, and scholarly debates.

A scholarly account of the annual ten-day Ṣàngó Festival in Ọ̀yọ́, examining its liturgical calendar, priestly offices, historical origins, theological schisms, and modern global heritage status.

An annual multi-day ritual reenactment in Ile-Ife dramatizing the primordial political conflict, exile, and reconciliation between the indigenous Obatala faction and the incoming Oduduwa dynasty.

An extensive study of Ọdún Ọba, the royal festival celebrating monarchical renewal, civic allegiance, ancestral intercession, and agricultural transition across Yoruba polities.

The premier annual sacred kingship and religious festival in Ilé-Ifẹ̀, celebrating the deity Ògún, the creation of the cosmic order, and the renewal of the Ọ̀ọ̀ni's divine mandate.