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
Britain’s 1901 to 1902 Campaign Against the Aro Confederacy
In the closing months of 1901, British colonial authorities launched a large and carefully...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Brazilian Barracoon in Badagry
Badagry is a historic coastal town in Lagos State, Nigeria, shaped by waterways, creeks,...
African History
Patrice Lumumba in Power, How the Congo Crisis Consumed Its First Prime Minister
On 30 June 1960, the Belgian Congo became independent as the Republic of the...