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.

Fatai Rolling Dollar, The Agidigbo Master Who Carried Old Lagos Music Into a New Age

Fatai Rolling Dollar belonged to a generation of Nigerian musicians whose names were built...

Danjuma, Ironsi and Fajuyi, The Ibadan Arrest That Shook Nigeria

By July 1966, Nigeria was no longer the hopeful federation that had entered independence...

Ebele Okeke, The Civil Engineer Who Rose to the Top of Nigeria’s Federal Civil Service

Ebele Ofunneamaka Okeke holds an important place in Nigerian history because her career connects...