University of Oxford, MSt Global & Imperial History

• Dissertation: Economic Thought of Kumasi Market Women (1970-1995)

Queen Mary University of London, BA (Hons) History & Comparative Literature

• Dissertation: Guns and Spirits: Colonial Control, Value, and Resistance in Southern Nigeria (1890–1945)

• Dissertation: Writing Colonial Tyranny on the Body: comparison between Kafka(1914) and Uzoma (2014)

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Abba, R., et al. (2023). ‘What is Shared about African Modernism? What is African about Modern Heritage?’

Docomomo Journal, (69), 86–98.

• Abba, R. (2022). ‘Conflicting Temporalities in the Struggle for Independence in Late-Colonial Nigeria (1945-1960)’, KUJUA: Journal of the African Studies Students Association, 2(1), 8-28.

Conference Presentations

• Politics of control and consumption of colonial commodities — Institute of Historical Research, 2021.

• Economic nationalism and masculinities in late colonial Nigeria — Africa and World War II Conference, 2019.

Essays

• Protesters’ temporalities at the 1947 Abeokuta Women’s Revolt — History Workshop Journal