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The fall of Ọ̀yọ́, the Ilọrin and Sokoto dimension, the Ọ̀wu war, the rise of Ìbàdàn, the Sixteen Years War at Kiriji, and the political map they left behind.

The Ìjẹ̀ṣà commander who was twice an Ìbàdàn captive and ended as commander-in-chief of the eastern confederacy that fought Ìbàdàn to a standstill for sixteen years, and the diaspora arms network that made it possible.

The pastor at Ọ̀yọ́ who wrote the book that made Yoruba history, the manuscript's loss and reconstruction, and the generation of Lagos men who first wrote Yoruba people into the record themselves.

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.

Adó-Èkìtì, Ìkẹ́rẹ́, Ìkọ̀lé, Ọ̀tùn and Efọ̀n-Aláàyè, the sixteen crowns of the Aládemẹ́rìndínlógún, and the pẹ̀lúpẹ̀lú council that the British convened in 1900.

The hill kingdom Ọ̀yọ́ never took, the seawater story behind its ruler's title, its subjection to Ìbàdàn, and Ògèdèngbé, who commanded the alliance that ended Ìbàdàn's expansion.

Why the nineteenth-century Yoruba wars read differently depending on whether the source is oral tradition, academic history, or a colonial missionary account, illustrated with the Battle of Òsogbo's tactics and the record's treatment of Òwú's origins.

Biography, military campaigns, and historiographical debates surrounding Ògèdèńgbé Agbógungbóró, the commander-in-chief of the Ẹ̀kìtìparapọ̀ confederacy during the Kiriji War.