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
Taxi Driver Made Her Famous at 16, Then Mandy Brown Ojugbana Rebuilt Her Life in Broadcasting and Radio Journalism
Mandy Brown Ojugbana entered Nigeria’s pop consciousness in the mid 1980s through Taxi Driver,...
Democratic Nigeria
When Lagos Briefly Became the Capital of the Black World
On 15 January 1977, Lagos opened one of the most ambitious cultural gatherings ever...
African History
Nigeria’s ECOMOG Wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Battles Abuja Led So West Africa Could Survive
By 1990, Liberia’s civil war had spiraled into a regional emergency. Armed factions battled...