Look Around

The figure at the root of Yoruba dynastic claims, the several incompatible traditions about who or what Òdùduwà was, the conflict with Ọbàtálá at Ilé-Ifẹ̀, and what archaeology and historians can and cannot establish.

How a Yoruba king's ritual duties as sacred mediator collide with his personal Christianity or Islam, and how Nigerian statute and constitutional law have tried, and largely failed, to settle the collision.

A comprehensive scholarly history of Ìlàrọ̀, examining its Oyo frontier origins, the martial tradition of Oronna, imperial administration, dynastic succession, colonial encounter, and contemporary civic institutions.

The political reign, commercial policies, military decline, and constitutional conflicts of Aláàfin Abíọ́dún, the late eighteenth-century monarch of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire.

Guide to the five files on Yorùbá jurisprudence, covering customary legal principles, courts and dispute resolution, evidentiary oaths and ordeals, communal land tenure, and restorative criminal justice.

An analysis of pre-colonial Yoruba jurisprudence, detailing the classification of offences, the institutional preference for restitution, mechanisms of banishment, capital sanctions, and the colonial transformation of customary criminal law.