Kingdoms of the Yoruba

Robert S. Smith was an expert on the history of the Yoruba peoples in Nigeria and Professor of History at the Universities of Lagos, Ife and Ibadan.

1. The Yoruba and their Homeland 2. The Primacy of Ife 3. The Rise of Oyo 4. Kingdoms of the East: Ijesha, Ekiti, Igbomina, Owo and Ondo 5. Kingdoms fo the West: Ketu, Shabe, and Dassa 6. Kingdoms fo the South: Ijebu, Egba, Egbado, and Lagos 7. The Traditions Reviewed 8. An Oba and his People 9. War 10. The Decline and Fall of Old Oyo 11. The Wars and the New States 12. On the Threshold of Nigeria.