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 Ijebu Chief Whose Cloth Revealed the Power of Oshugbo
The image of Chief Adesina Adeyemi of Ijebu Ife is more than a portrait...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
The Wedding That Joined the Okoya and Tejuoso Families in Yoruba High Society
The marriage of Prince Olanrewaju Adeyemi Tejuoso and Princess Mojisola Okoya remains one of...
Nigerian History
The Night Miriam Makeba Carried South Africa’s Pain to Lagos
In 1977, Lagos became one of the great meeting points of Black cultural history....