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
Rivers, Spirits, and Masquerades in the Niger Delta
The Niger Delta, covering much of present day Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, and Akwa Ibom...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
How the Sarki Governed Kano, Katsina, and the Hausa States
In the medieval centuries of Hausaland, political authority revolved around the office of the...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Grace Eniola Soyinka and the Abeokuta Women’s Tax Revolt
Grace Eniola Soyinka is widely recognised as the mother of Wole Soyinka. Yet her...