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.
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Afi Ekong and the Making of Modern Nigerian Art
Modern Nigerian art did not emerge from one studio or one artist alone. It...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and the Hausa Novels That Gave Girls’ Education a Voice
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu was born in Kano in 1959, in a society where many...
Crimes in Nigeria
The 1923 Tinubu Square Shooting, When a Lagos Courtroom Turned Into a Scene of Tragedy
In the history of colonial Lagos, few courtroom tragedies matched the shock caused by...