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
1914 and the Making of Nigeria, What the Amalgamation Really Was, and What It Was Not
Before 1914, Britain did not govern the territory now called Nigeria as a single...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Pioneers of Learning, The First Nigerian Students Educated Under Missionary Rule
During the nineteenth century, Christian missionary activity reached the coastal communities of what is...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Indigenous Worldviews of Pre Colonial Nigeria
Before European rule, the land now called Nigeria was home to many societies with...