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.

Brothers in Power, The Bamaiyi Story at the Heart of Nigeria’s Abacha Era

Nigeria’s military history has produced moments when siblings rose through the ranks at the...

The Birth of the NUT and the Nigerian Youth Movement in the 1930s

Colonial Lagos in the early 1930s was a city of classrooms, newspapers, courtrooms, and...

Sofolahan Josiah Sawyerr and the Saro World That Shaped Colonial Lagos

Sofolahan Josiah Sawyerr is a name that appears most often in Lagos family remembrance...