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
How a Government Inquiry Forced Emir Sanusi I from the Throne
In March 1963, Sir Muhammadu Sanusi I, Emir of Kano, resigned from the throne...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Bashọrun Gaa and the Crisis of Old Oyo
Old Oyo stands among the most powerful precolonial Yorùbá states, an empire whose authority...
Independence & Nationalism in Nigeria
The Macpherson Constitution and the Political Rise of the Action Group
By the late 1940s, the Richards Constitution of 1946 had become a symbol of...