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The kinds of evidence historians use to reconstruct the Yoruba past, what each kind can and cannot prove, and how one 1921 book shaped everything written since.

A method note explaining what kind of evidence exists for Yoruba figures from the earliest traditions to 1900, why the oldest names cannot be treated as documented biography, and how this section marks the difference.

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.

The narrative of the Ifẹ̀ woman who let herself be captured to learn the raiders' secret and paid for it with her only son, the Ugbo counter-tradition in which she is a traitor, and the confusion of Ugbo with Igbo that has caused lasting trouble.

Comprehensive guide and analytical index to the eighty-one thematic files comprising the Yorùbá proverb corpus.

The life, political career, economic empire, and contested death of the nineteenth-century merchant who became the second Iyalode of Ibadan.

An examination of the life, methodology, institutional leadership, and historiographical contributions of Bọ́lańlé Awẹ́, pioneer of Yoruba oral history and African gender studies.

Guide to the ten files in the children section, examining traditional Yorùbá games, moonlight play, oral literature, physical contests, and indigenous child pedagogy.