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 Afrobeat Outlived Fela Kuti and Became One of Nigeria’s Greatest Cultural Exports
Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti is often remembered as a symbol, a rebel with a saxophone,...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Fela Kuti and the Politics of Defiance
Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s personal life was never treated as a private matter in Nigeria....
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Fela Kuti’s Collision With the Nigerian State, From the 1974 Arrests to the 1977 Kalakuta Inferno
The confrontation between Fela Kuti and the Nigerian state during the 1970s did not...