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
Dom Obá II d’Africa and the Politics of Presence in Imperial Brazil
Brazil’s late imperial capital was filled with contradiction. Rio de Janeiro displayed royal ceremony...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Abuja History Before the Capital, The Indigenous Gbagyi People and Their Homeland
Abuja is widely known as Nigeria’s planned capital, a city designed to represent unity,...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Benin and Europe, Diplomacy, Trade, and the 1897 Conquest
Long before colonial borders reshaped West Africa, the Kingdom of Benin stood as a...