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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.

The diplomatic settlements, British interventions, demobilisation crises, and socioeconomic transformations that ended the nineteenth-century Yoruba wars and restructured political authority under colonial rule.