War and Peace in Yorubaland contains selections from the papers presented at the centenary conference on the 1886 Kiriji/Ekitiparapo Peace Treaty which was held at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Ile-Ife, from 21-28 September 1986. The volume, while not discussing all the issues connected with War and Peace in Yorubaland. raises and gives a coherent picture of different issues fundamental to the modern history of the Yorubas and aspects of the human 9+-drama that constituted the Yoruba Civil Wars which went on from 1793 to 1893. There is no doubt that this book is crucial to the understanding of Yoruba history in the last two hundred years. It is the first major effort since Samuel Johnson wrote in 1897 and an essential modern updating of his History of the Yorubas.