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
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...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
The Woman Who Refused to Look Away, Mary Slessor’s Calabar Years That Changed Lives
Mary Slessor remains one of the most compelling figures connected to Calabar and the...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim (Òjélàdé), The Bahian Scholar Who Carried Lagos Back to Brazil
Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim, known in Yorùbá religious life as Òjélàdé, was born in...