This twenty-chapter document is a well-researched “delightfully illuminating and comprehensive work on Osogbo town, calling up its rich and glorious past, its veracious present and highly promising future” It is a work of historical analysis shaped by the author's conception and interpretation of the past. According to the author, this task of providing the historical analysis was approached from the sociological perspective. This bastion of arts and culture is to shed light on the town's rich and glorious past with “the objective of filling the yawning gap necessitated by the dearth of sophisticated books on the deepness of Osogbo on all fronts. This is not just another historical book. It is a highly well-researched work of knowledge that contributes immensely to the literature on Osogbo city.