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
Inside the Sàngó Shrine of the Timi of Ede
Ede is one of the long established towns of the Yoruba people in what...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
A Thousand Years on the Throne, The Enduring Monarchy of Kanem and Borno
For centuries, the Lake Chad region has been shaped by one of Africa’s longest...
Colonial Nigeria
King Duke IX of Old Calabar in the 1890s, power, trade, and survival under British protection
Old Calabar entered the 1890s as one of the most important political and commercial...