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.
Military Era & Coups in Nigeria
Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power
On 1 October 1984, Major General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida stood in Beijing during one...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Adamu Fika: The Wazirin Fika and the Civil Service Battle of 1988
Malam Adamu Fika belonged to a generation of Nigerian public servants whose careers were...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Joseph Garba and Jesse Jackson: The 1987 UN Meeting That Put Apartheid Before the World
On 12 November 1987, a United Nations photograph captured Joseph Nanven Garba of Nigeria...