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
The Marriage That Time Couldn’t Erase, Dele Giwa, Florence Ita-Giwa, and Nigeria’s Lingering Questions
In Nigeria’s public memory, some stories survive because they were carefully recorded. Others survive...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
The Man Abacha Could Not Intimidate, Abraham Adesanya and Nigeria’s Long Road Back to Civil Rule
Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya was never a politician of noise. He did not rely on...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Emir Abdullahi Bayero of Kano, Faith, Governance, and Change in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1881 to 1953
Abdullahi Bayero was born in 1881 and became Sarkin Kano in April 1926. He...