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
How Shade Thomas-Fahm Helped Shape Modern Nigerian Fashion
When the story of Nigerian fashion is told, the name Shade Thomas-Fahm stands near...
Colonial Nigeria
How the Ooni of Ife Used Àrokò to Invite Missionaries to Yorubaland
In the early nineteenth century, communication across Yorubaland did not depend only on written...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
When a Missionary Met the Alake of Abeokuta, What Richard Henry Stone Saw in a Nineteenth Century Yoruba Court
In 1899, American missionary Richard Henry Stone published a memoir describing his years among...