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
Standing Wood Sculptures and Royal Authority at the Old Palace of Oba Sir Ladapo Ademola II, Abeokuta
The Old Palace of the Alake of Egbaland in Abeokuta remains one of the...
Colonial Nigeria
West African Airways Corporation, Complete History of WAAC and the Birth of Nigeria Airways
In the decade after the Second World War, air travel in British West Africa...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Two West African Chiefs in London, 1947, The True Story Behind the Historic South Kensington Photograph
In the summer of 1947, London was still living with the aftershocks of the...