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.
Colonial Nigeria
The Birth of the NUT and the Nigerian Youth Movement in the 1930s
Colonial Lagos in the early 1930s was a city of classrooms, newspapers, courtrooms, and...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Sofolahan Josiah Sawyerr and the Saro World That Shaped Colonial Lagos
Sofolahan Josiah Sawyerr is a name that appears most often in Lagos family remembrance...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
British Conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate, 1897 to 1903
The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria emerged from calculated imperial expansion, not administrative routine. Between...