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
British Conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate, 1897 to 1903
The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria emerged from calculated imperial expansion, not administrative routine. Between...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Ilorin’s Revolt and the Fall of the Oyo Empire
In the early nineteenth century, the Oyo Empire remained one of the most influential...
Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
The Aro Expedition, Britain’s Pacification War That Broke Arochukwu’s Power in Eastern Nigeria
At the turn of the twentieth century, Arochukwu was more than a settlement in...