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.
African History
Nigeria’s ECOMOG Wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the Battles Abuja Led So West Africa Could Survive
By 1990, Liberia’s civil war had spiraled into a regional emergency. Armed factions battled...
Democratic Nigeria
The Destruction of Odi, How a Security Operation Turned Into a National TragedyNigeria powered ECOWAS’s most consequential military interventions of the 1990s, paying in...
Odi is an Ijaw community in Kolokuma, Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State...
Democratic Nigeria
How Nigeria Was Handed SDP and NRC, And How June 12 Grew Out of a Democracy Built From Above
By the late 1980s, General Ibrahim Babangida’s military government was advancing a transition programme...