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
Osogbo War: The Yoruba Victory That Stopped Ilorin’s Deeper Advance
The Osogbo War took place during one of the most turbulent periods in Yoruba...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
How Governor Olabisi Onabanjo Moved Against the Awujale, and How the 1983 Coup Changed the Course of the Crisis
The clash between Governor Olabisi Onabanjo of Ogun State and Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona,...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Alhaja Ajiun Alabi-Isama at the War Front
The Nigerian Civil War remains one of the most painful and defining chapters in...