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The historical development of Lagos Èkó from its Awori foundations and Benin dynastic origins to its institutional structures, royal succession, and nineteenth-century political transformation.

An annual seventeen-day royal festival in Ọ̀wọ̀ commemorating Queen Ọ̀rọ́nsẹ̀n, characterized by iron gongs, the complete prohibition of drums, and cross-gender royal regalia.

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 taxonomic guide clarifying the cosmological, political, and gender distinctions among Yoruba ritual embodiments often lumped together as generic masquerades.