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.
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Opha Ceremony of the Urhobo People
Among the Urhobo of southern Nigeria, rites of passage were historically communal events that...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Onigu Otite and the Study of Ethnicity in Nigeria
Onigu Otite, born Kingsley John Onigu Otite on 21 January 1939 and who died...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
When Aggression Took Shape, The Urhobo Iphri Dance of the Niger Delta
A photograph taken in 1972 by Perkins Foss captures a powerful Urhobo performance centred...