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
January 1966 and the Fall of Nigeria’s First Republic
Nigeria entered 1966 as an independent country with a constitutional system already under severe...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
Northern Cameroons and the 1961 Plebiscite, Why It Chose Union with Nigeria
Northern Cameroons was part of the former German Kamerun, which was divided between Britain...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
Why Federalism Became Nigeria’s Safest Path to Independence
When Nigeria moved toward self government in the final years of British colonial rule,...