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.
Military Era & Coups in Nigeria
January Boys of 1966, The Nigerian Army Majors Who Toppled the First Republic and Lost Control of Power
On 15 January 1966, coordinated military action erupted across Nigeria’s major centres of power....
Military Era & Coups in Nigeria
January 15, 1966, Nigeria’s First Coup, A Reconstruction of Events in Kaduna, Lagos, and Ibadan
Nigeria’s first military coup unfolded in the late hours of January 14 and the...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Osifekunde of Ijebu, the Paris Interviews, and the Life Mask That Outlasted Him
Some lives reach us through diaries and letters. Others arrive only through someone else’s...