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
Colonel Anthony Aboki Ochefu: The Soldier Linked to Gowon’s Fall and Nigeria’s Unsettled Military Past
Colonel Anthony Aboki Ochefu stands in one of the most complex chapters of Nigeria’s...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Fọlákẹ́ Solanke, T.O.S. Benson, and the 1957 Old Bailey Case
Long before Chief Fọlákẹ́ Solanke became one of the most respected figures in Nigerian...
Biographies & Cultural Icons of Nigeria
Murtala Nyako: The Admiral Who Moved From Naval Command to Power, Farming and a Long Legal Battle
Murtala Hamman Yero Nyako was born in Mayo Belwa, in present day Adamawa State,...