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
Prince Frederick Sunday Jaja in Opobo, a photographed heir of a changing Niger Delta
In a mounted albumen photograph dated circa 1897, a young man sits at the...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Amaechi Muonagor, Veteran Nollywood Actor, Dies at 62
Amaechi Muonagor, a Nigerian actor best known for his character roles in Nollywood films,...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Mazi Mbonu Ojike, the “Boycott King” Who Challenged Colonial Nigeria Through Culture and Consumption
Mazi Mbonu Ojike occupies a distinctive place in Nigeria’s late colonial history because he...