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- ↑ Law, R. C. C. (1971). "The constitutional troubles of Ọyọ in the eighteenth century". The Journal of African History. 12 (1): 25–44. doi:10.1017/s0021853700000050. ISSN 0021-8537.
- ↑ Ajayi, J. F. A.; Crowder, Michael (1987). History of West Africa. Longman. ISBN 0582016045. OCLC 476413782.
- ↑ Johnson, Samuel (August 2011). The history of the Yorubas : from the earliest times to the beginning of the British Protectorate. ISBN 0948390891. OCLC 989713421.
- Samuel Johnson, Obadiah Johnson. The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. p 170
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