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How the collapse of Ọ̀yọ́ and the wars that followed fed the last decades of the Atlantic trade, why so many Yoruba ended up in Cuba and Brazil, and what returned.

Why Yoruba religion is so visible in the Americas, why the answer is timing rather than numbers, and how a late arrival into two late-abolishing societies produced unusually intact institutional transmission.

The history and structure of Candomblé in Brazil, why the nations matter, the great Bahian terreiros and the women who led them, the regional variants, Umbanda as a distinct formation, and the current situation under evangelical pressure.

Trinidad Orisha and its Spiritual Baptist entanglement, the Nago rite within Haitian Vodou stated without collapsing Vodou into Yoruba religion, and the smaller and thinner Yoruba presences in Jamaica, Grenada, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

The Yoruba kingdoms that ended up in Benin Republic and Togo, their destruction by Dahomey, the Anàgó name and where it comes from, and what national status they hold today.

An analysis of Candomblé Ketu in Bahia, covering its nineteenth-century origins, institutional kinship structures, ritual practices, divergence from West African prototypes, and historiographical debates.

An examination of the Yoruba-derived Nago rite in Haitian Vodou, detailing the consolidation of the Ogou pantheon, liturgical structures, scholarly debates, and divergences from West African practice.

An examination of the historical formation, institutional structures, ritual practices, demographic realities, and scholarly debates defining Yoruba cultural and religious life in contemporary Brazil.

A historical, linguistic, and cultural study of the Anàgó, a Western Yorùbá subgroup inhabiting the Nigeria-Benin borderland whose name became a defining transatlantic ethnonym.