A special publication on the historical perspectives of the royal ascension of the present Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Babatunde Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II and associated history of Obaship in the Yoruba land is scheduled for launch in Lagos tomorrow.

The event holds at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

According to the spokesman for the launch committee, Babajide Macauley: “This Book will surely put issues in Proper Perspective and remove every iota of doubt on the importance and supremacy of the Ooni of Ife as the Progenitor and bastion of Yoruba emancipation and youth development.”

This historical documentation, an initiative of Printmarks International, an indigenous research and documentation outfit, which in February 2016, “with the authority of the revered monarch, set out to document in book form, the pre-coronation, coronation and post-coronation events of the present 51st Ooni”.

The book is adjudged an archival reference material that sets out to put in proper perspective the Yoruba cultural values and tradition. “The book encompasses the profile of the monarch, details former Oonis from the first to the present, reels out the names of Ife honourary chiefs, dead and alive, reveals the administrative and political structure of Ile-Ife and captures in colours Ife monuments, its historic sites and tourist potentials,” the organisers said.

Led by the Balogun of Ile-Ife, Chief Bisi Omidiora, who painstakingly edited the bookwork, the preface was Written by Chief Alex Duduyemi, OFR, The Asiwaju of Ile-Ife, the Foreword was written by Ambassador Gunju Adesakin, the Otun Balogun of the Source and the Epilogue was written by Chief Segun Bamigbetan Baju, the Soludero of Ife and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Cuba.

The event is expected to attract top government functionaries, particularly the Aare Adimula of Ife and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, as chairman, state governors and others.