Hello 👋🏾, my name is Rose Nneoma Abba and I’m a Nigerian artist, thinker, and researcher working towards a more loving world.

My goal is to create hospitable environments for knowledge-making and exchange as a form of social healing, especially in the wake of slavery, colonialism, dictatorship, and their economic and ecological residues. Studio Styles is my workshop for this endeavour.

I think of this not as a project with a capturable target but as a practice of re-orienting how we relate—to each other, to things, to the earth, to history, to pleasure/beauty—through legal, cultural, and material forms that move at the pace of home: home in our bodies, home in our minds, home in our communities, home in our environment.

I studied History, Literature, and Cultural Theory in London and Oxford after attending the United World College in Wales, Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja, and IELC in Aba. I also studied briefly at the University of Western Cape’s History Department in South Africa. These schools taught me a great deal about life and about learning through all the senses and faculties by both their merits and their blind spots.

Then, I returned to Nigeria to learn how the world looks and feels from here, to understand my country and continent on my own terms, and to grow my capacity to serve the Global Majority and contribute to our educational and cultural infrastructure.

I’ve won some awards and been affiliated with some prestigious institutions. If I apply to you for a job, you’ll see them on my CV. For now, love me or leave me based on whether the work of my hands resonates with you personally.