Hello,

My name is Rose Nneoma Abba, and I’m a thinker and artist building a life where I get to produce, manage, and circulate beauty and knowledge in environments that leave people feeling more alive, more at home in themselves, and more able to participate in the world with care.

I live in Enugu and run Studio Styles, my art and research practice. Through it, I run a YouTube channel on love as a decolonial ethic, and have produced projects such as the Restful, an anthology of Nigerian reflections (2025), and the Sweet Medicine podcast (2024).

I studied Global Intellectual and Imperial History, Comparative Literature, Cultural Theory, Design, Poetry, and Photography across institutions in Wales, London, and Oxford, then began my career in Nigeria as an independent researcher, writer, and artist exploring how Nigerians make a living, find belonging, and create meaning in their lives. My memoir essay on the 2005 Sosoliso plane crash, ‘The Fire in My Memory,’ won the inaugural Abebi AfroNonfiction award and was longlisted for the Wasafiri Life Writing Prize in 2023.

My debut short film, You Matter to Me (2022), premiered at the Royal African Society’s Film Africa festival and won the inaugural Rising Star Award at the 2023 Surreal 16 Film Festival in Lagos. My second short film, Our Bodies, Nigeria’s Ghosts (2025), is currently making its way around Nigeria and Europe.