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.
Democratic Nigeria
Gowon’s 12 States and the Biafra War, 1967 Explained
Nigeria’s civil war story is often told as though one moment triggered everything, the...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Jonathan Adagogo Green, Bonny’s Early Master of the Camera
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, photography began to reshape how West...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
Kenneth Onwuka Dike and the Rewriting of Nigeria’s Past
In the twentieth century, when Africa’s past was largely interpreted through colonial archives and...