Look Around

Guide to the six files covering Yoruba military organisation, weapons and fortification, the social and economic consequences of nineteenth-century war, campaign historiography, war ritual and medicine, and named field commanders, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

How Yorùbá armies were organised and commanded, from the mounted nobility of Old Ọ̀yọ́ to the achieved war-chief ladders of the nineteenth-century successor states, and how campaigns were recruited, supplied and fought.

A scholarly analysis of Yoruba military structures, tracing imperial command in Oyo, meritocratic promotional ladders in nineteenth-century Ibadan, and regional variations across Egba, Ijebu, and Ekiti formations.