Gbolade Akinwale
Gbolade Akinwale is a Nigerian historian and writer dedicated to shedding light on the full range of the nation’s past. His work cuts across timelines and topics, exploring power, people, memory, resistance, identity, and everyday life. With a voice grounded in truth and clarity, he treats history not just as record, but as a tool for understanding, reclaiming, and reimagining Nigeria’s future.
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Chief T. E. A. Salubi, the diarist who recorded Urhobo life under British rule
Chief Thompson Adogbeji Aitkins Salubi, widely known as T. E. A. Salubi, stands among...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Chief Samuel Jereton Mariere and a name that still stands at Akoka
On the University of Lagos campus at Akoka, certain names do more than identify...
Crimes in Nigeria
The Day a Yoruba King Went to the Gallows
In the history of colonial era justice in Western Nigeria, few cases left a...