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.
Crimes in Nigeria
The Stolen Billions That Refused to Disappear: Inside the Long Abacha Loot Trail
Nearly three decades after General Sani Abacha died in office on 8 June 1998,...
Crimes in Nigeria
How Nigeria’s Bonny Island LNG Project Became a Global Bribery Scandal
The Halliburton affair remains one of the most important corruption cases connected to Nigeria’s...
Crimes in Nigeria
Nigeria’s Oil Block That Refused to Die: The Malabu Deal, the Courts and the $1.3 Billion Shadow
The Malabu OPL 245 affair began in April 1998, during the military government of...