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The oba and why Yoruba kingship was sacred and constrained at the same time, the chieftaincy title system, the palace, the town council, Ogboni as judiciary and check, and how a king was actually removed.

The Ọ̀ọ̀ni lineage from Adéṣọjí Adérẹ̀mí to Adéyẹyè Ògúnwùsì, Aláàfin Lámídì Adéyẹmí III, the Aláké, the Awùjalẹ̀ Ṣikirú Adétọ́nà, the Ọba of Lagos, and how the office of ọba actually works in modern Nigeria.

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.

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.

An analysis of how traditional Yoruba dress signals social rank, political office, moral character, and ceremonial occasion through textile hierarchies and sumptuary restrictions.

The Ìyálóde, the Ìyálọ́jà, the Lóbùn of Ondó, the titled women inside the Ọ̀yọ́ palace, the documented cases of female ọba and regents, and what indirect rule did to all of it.

Thirty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on the crown, the throne, the palace and the offices around them, on what a king owns and what he cannot forbid, and on how a person is placed on a throne or kept off one, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.

The historical development, political institutions, military leadership, and administrative evolution of Ibadan from its nineteenth-century war camp origins to the contemporary metropolis.

A comprehensive history of Ìkirun, examining its founding migrations from Igbo-Irele, dynastic succession, 19th-century military alliances during the Jalumi War, civic institutions, and modern political developments.

A comprehensive history of Ìkàrẹ́-Àkókó detailing its competing traditions of origin, nineteenth-century Nupe hegemony, colonial restructuring, dual-monarchy chieftaincy disputes, traditional institutions, and modern socioeconomic development.

A comprehensive historical study of the northern Osun community of Ọ̀yán, examining its founding by Prince Ẹpẹ́ from Ile-Ife, dynastic succession disputes, quarter institutions, sacred rituals, and modern civic development.

A scholarly examination of the Adamu Orisha Play of Lagos, detailing its mortuary ritual programme, deity conclaves, origin traditions, and contemporary socio-spatial dynamics.

A structural and historical disambiguation of Yoruba royal, territorial, and collegiate titles, contrasting indigenous constitutional orders with the flattening umbrella term Chief.