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
Ibadan in the Early 1960s, The City That Moved Western Nigeria
In the early 1960s, Ibadan stood as one of the most influential cities in...
Democratic Nigeria
Inside the First Lagos State House of Assembly, The Legislature That Worked with Jakande, 1979–1983
Nigeria’s return to civilian government in 1979 opened a new political chapter for Lagos...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Orishatukeh Faduma, The Sierra Leonean Yoruba Scholar Who Carried African Learning from Freetown to Yale
Orishatukeh Faduma stands among the most remarkable African intellectuals of the late nineteenth and...