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.
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
T.O.S. Benson and the Making of Nigeria’s National Voice
Lagos in the early 1960s was loud, fast, and politically electric. The city was...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Ibadan, Ijaye War
By the mid nineteenth century, Yorubaland was living through a dangerous transition. The old...
Military Era & Coups in Nigeria
From Sandhurst to a Shattered Nation
On 8 March 1956, a British archival photograph captured two Nigerian officer cadets, Arthur...