Ṣàwárí

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 Ọ̀yọ́ war commander whose revolt broke the empire, the Fulani scholar whose community he armed, and how Ìlọrin passed from a Yoruba town under a Yoruba general to an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.

How an Ọ̀yọ́ military outpost passed from Àfọ̀njá to a Fulani emirate inside the Sokoto Caliphate, what the sources actually establish about that sequence, and the four positions people hold about Ìlọrin's identity today.

A comparative look at the nineteenth-century Yoruba war leaders, what set the Ọ̀yọ́-derived Kakanfò autocrats apart from Ìbàdàn's achieved-title men, and the frontline commanders below the top rank who do not have their own dedicated file.

A comprehensive history of Ìlọrin, tracing its origins from an Ọ̀yọ́ frontier settlement to an Islamic emirate, its political institutions, dynastic succession, and modern transformation.

A comprehensive historical examination of the two polities bearing the name Ìwéré in Yoruba and related coastal history: the Itsekiri Kingdom of Warri (Alẹ̀ Ìwéré) and the western Oyo hill-fortress of Ìwéré-Ilé.

The career of the Oyo imperial general whose rebellion at Ilorin accelerated the disintegration of the empire and led to the creation of the Ilorin Emirate.