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
Northern Nigeria Between Empires, Drought, and Revolution, 1500–1804
From the sixteenth century onward, northern Nigeria stood at the centre of a vast...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Madam Efunroye Tinubu, How a Yoruba Merchant Woman Rose to Power in Lagos and Abeokuta
Madam Efunroye Tinubu, who died in 1887, was one of the most powerful women...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Nwékpé Masquerade of Arochukwu
Arochukwu’s Ikeji festival unfolds across several carefully ordered days, each devoted to a particular...