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.
Colonial Nigeria
The £865,000 Transfer That Ended Corporate Rule in the Niger Territories
At the close of the nineteenth century, control of vast stretches of the Niger...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Alhassan Dantata, The Trader Who Commanded Kano’s Groundnut Boom and Shaped a Commercial Dynasty
Alhassan Dantata stands as one of the most influential merchant figures in the history...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Ahebi Ugbabe and the Making of a Female King in Colonial Nigeria
Ahebi Ugbabe stands as one of the most extraordinary figures in Nigerian colonial history....