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- ↑ Johnson, Samuel (2011). History of the yorubas. Research Associates School. ISBN 0948390891. OCLC 841599526.
- Samuel Johnson, Obadiah Johnson. The History of the Yorubas, From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. p. 168.