The Untold Story of a Nigerian Royal Family: The Urhobo Ruling Clan of Okpe Kingdom - Hardcover
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- The Okpe revolution of the sixteenth century and the assassination of Esezi I
- British Colonial rule of the kingdom, late 1800s-1960
- Civil war between the Okpe and Olomu of Itsekiri and the palm oil trade rivalry
- Urhobo-Itsekiri collaboration in the slave trade, and slavery in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Okpe.
- The political role played by traditional chiefs
- Feminists who campaigned for women's rights to participate in the council of elders
- The effort by HRH Esezi II to promote the democratic system of government within the Okpe council. - The story of the uncrowned king of Okpe Kingdom, including a brief history of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70
- The reign of HRH Orhoro I.
- The story of the author's candidacy for Okpe King after the death of Orhoro I
- Nigeria oil policy
- Muslim-Christian strife and human rights abuses
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