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.

Inside the First Lagos State House of Assembly, The Legislature That Worked with Jakande, 1979–1983

Nigeria’s return to civilian government in 1979 opened a new political chapter for Lagos...

Orishatukeh Faduma, The Sierra Leonean Yoruba Scholar Who Carried African Learning from Freetown to Yale

Orishatukeh Faduma stands among the most remarkable African intellectuals of the late nineteenth and...

Oba Samuel Adisa Adeleye Adenle I and Osogbo in an Age of Change

Oba Samuel Adisa Adeleye Adenle I occupies an important place in the modern history...