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.

Tony Allen Finally Tells His Side, The Afrobeat Architect Steps Out of Fela’s Shadow

Tony Allen’s Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat unfolds as...

How Afrobeat Outlived Fela Kuti and Became One of Nigeria’s Greatest Cultural Exports

Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti is often remembered as a symbol, a rebel with a saxophone,...

Fela Kuti and the Politics of Defiance

Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s personal life was never treated as a private matter in Nigeria....