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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.

What the sources actually attribute to Olodumare, the disputed etymologies, and the live scholarly argument over whether the supreme-being framing is indigenous Yoruba thought or a shape given to it by the missionary encounter.

How Islam took root in Yorùbáland centuries before Christianity, how Ìlọrin became its scholarly capital, and how Yorùbá Muslims built their own schools, associations, and clerical practice alongside the older òrìṣà tradition.

How Yoruba families and towns hold Christianity, Islam, and indigenous Orisa devotion together at once, and the scholarly argument over whether "syncretism" is even the right word for what is happening.

A comprehensive historical, dynastic, and institutional analysis of Ilésà, the capital city of the Ìjẹ̀ṣà kingdom from its founding origins to the modern era.

The life, diplomatic mediation, and historiographical legacy of the Anglican clergyman whose posthumously published 1921 masterwork established the foundation of modern Yoruba historical writing.

A historical and scholarly examination of the translation of the Yorùbá deity Èṣù into the Christian Satan, the nineteenth-century colonial mechanisms of that conflation, and twentieth-century academic rehabilitations.

A historical analysis of structural transformations, theological shifts, and archival biases in Yoruba religious practice from pre-1830 lineage shrines to contemporary global networks.