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.
Colonial Nigeria
How the Royal Niger Company Constabulary Turned River Commerce Into Authority, 1888 to 1900
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, British influence along the Niger River...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Dr Okoi Arikpo, a life of learning, law, and diplomacy in Nigeria’s formative years
Dr Okoi Arikpo was born on 20 September 1916, at a time when formal...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Who Was Prince Archibong III of Old Calabar, and How Did an Efik King Hold Power as British Influence Grew in the 1870s?
Prince Archibong III, also recorded in Efik royal naming tradition as Edem Asibong III...