Forest kingdom of the Owa Obokun, conquered by Ibadan and then the driving force of the Ekitiparapo revolt and the 16-year Kiriji war.
Ilesa fell to Ibadan under Ogunmola in the 1860s, but the Ijesa warlord Ogedengbe led the Ekitiparapo revolt from 1878; the Owa of Ilesa signed the Governor of Lagos's arbitrated peace treaty of 25 June 1886 as an independent party, and Ijesaland passed under the British Lagos Protectorate with the rest of Yorubaland in 1893.
The standard scholarly history of this specific kingdom and how it was absorbed into colonial and independent Nigeria.
The comparative survey that situates Ilesa among the Yoruba successor states of the 19th century.