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
Alaafin Adeniran Adeyẹmi II, and the formative years of Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyẹmi III
The photograph preserved in the Justine Cordwell Collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
The 1952 London Wedding of a Lagos Couple Preserved in the Hulton Archive
On 14 August 1952, a Nigerian couple, Rauf Omobolaji Gaji and his bride, Juradat...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
Women in the Nigeria Police Force, 1955 to 1960s
Nigeria’s transition from late colonial administration to independence reshaped many public institutions. Among the...