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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 mother of the fish children, an Ogun river orisa in Yorubaland who became the sea in Brazil and Cuba, why that displacement happened, and what it shows about how the tradition actually works.

The two Yoruba loom traditions and who works them, the named prestige cloths, the full range of adire resist-dyeing and the indigo behind it, the industry's collapse in the 1930s and its revival, and why everyone at a Nigerian wedding is dressed alike.

The Kakanfò who went to war over a constitutional principle and lost his town, and the hunter who led the Ẹ̀gbá refugees to the rock at Abẹ́òkúta and governed them without a king.

The most powerful women in nineteenth-century Yorubaland, both of them large-scale slave traders, one killed by the ruler she had armed and the other exiled by a British consul, and the political office that made their power constitutional.

How Abẹ́òkúta went from a chief without a crown to a crowned Aláké in 1854, and the attempt by returnee intellectuals and traditional chiefs to build a modern state there that collapsed in 1874.

The refugee city under Olúmọ rock, its four townships each with its own ọba, the Aláké, and the Ẹ̀gbá United Government, which was the only Yoruba state Britain recognised as sovereign.

A technical and social study of adìrẹ, Yoruba indigo resist-dyed cloth, covering the resist techniques and their makers, indigo chemistry, named designs, the regional schools of Abẹ́òkúta, Ìbàdàn and Òṣogbo, and the twentieth-century revival led by Nike Davies-Okundaye and the contemporary market.

An examination of contemporary Yoruba textile production, tracing artisanal weaving in Iseyin and Oyo, resist-dyeing in Abeokuta and Osogbo, import competition, and modern design revivals.

What the century of wars did to Yoruba women: as captives and ransomed persons, as provisioners and arms dealers, as slaveholders and traders, as returnees building a new elite, and what it did to their position overall.

An examination of Yoruba women during nineteenth-century warfare as military financiers, logisticians, captives, slaveholders, and political leaders under changing militarized state structures.

Yoruba categories for mental disturbance, what traditional treatment consists of including the restraint that is its worst feature, Lambo's village system at Abeokuta and why it changed community psychiatry worldwide, and the trial evidence on collaboration with healers.

An institutional and political history of the confederal city of Abeokuta from its founding around 1830 to the contemporary era.

A historical analysis of Madam Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣúntinúbú, examining her career as a nineteenth-century merchant magnate, political kingmaker in Lagos and Abeokuta, and first Iyalode of Egbaland.

Biography, political mobilization, and anti-colonial organizing of Chief Fúnmiláyọ̀ Ransome-Kuti, examining the Abeokuta Women's Union, Cold War surveillance, and the documented record versus state denial.

A comprehensive scholarly study of the Ẹ̀gbá subgroup, detailing their forest origin traditions, 1830 resettlement at Abẹ́òkúta, quadripartite federal institutions, dialectology, and distinctive religious systems.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on adìrẹ eléko, the Yorùbá cassava-starch resist dyeing technique, covering its materials, chemistry, named master patterns, historical development, documented artists, museum collections, and archival debates.

Technical processes, material substrates, gender dynamics, and museum histories of Yoruba raffia-tied and needle-stitched indigo resist textiles.

The botanical, chemical, and socioeconomic structures of traditional Yoruba indigo fermentation dyeing, resist techniques, and guild organization.