Ṣàwárí

Section guide to the thirty-three files covering precolonial founders, nineteenth-century warlords, returnees, nationalists, intellectuals, artists, and modern diaspora figures across Yoruba history.

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.

Guide to the thirty biographical, historical, and historiographical studies in the People Deep section, examining the individual agents who shaped Yorùbá civilization.