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.
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
How the Mid-West Region Was Created Through Constitutional Procedure in 1963
Nigeria’s Mid-West Region occupies a special place in the country’s constitutional history because it...
Military Era & Coups in Nigeria
January 1966 and the Fall of Nigeria’s First Republic
Nigeria entered 1966 as an independent country with a constitutional system already under severe...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
Northern Cameroons and the 1961 Plebiscite, Why It Chose Union with Nigeria
Northern Cameroons was part of the former German Kamerun, which was divided between Britain...