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.
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Nana Olomu of Itsekiri, Merchant Prince of the Niger Delta, and the 1894 Ebrohimi Expedition
Long before the Niger Coast Protectorate became a firm instrument of British rule, the...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
How Families Were Split From the Hinterland to Bonny and Old Calabar
Across the lands that make up modern Nigeria, the transatlantic slave trade rarely began...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Origins of the Itsekiri People
The early history of the Itsekiri people is closely tied to the waterways of...