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.
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
The General Who Ended Biafra’s Last Stand: Philip Effiong, Josephine, and the Private Cost of Surrender
More than five decades after the Nigerian Civil War ended, Major General Philip Effiong...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Jimoh Akintola Odutola: Nigeria’s Forgotten Industrial Pioneer
Alhaji Jimoh Akintola Odutola belonged to a generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs who built their...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Nike Davies-Okundaye and Twins Seven-Seven: The 1974 Photograph That Carried Nigerian Modernism Abroad
In 1974, at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, two Nigerian...