Allegra Ayida

Allegra Ayida is pursuing her PhD in History at Yale. She holds a BA in History from Wesleyan University, an MA in World History from Kings’ College London and an MPhil in African Studies from Cambridge University. She is a historian of Africa who specializes in the longue durée history of Nigeria, in particular the Warri kingdom located in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria. Her current research in environmental humanities focuses on oil and land ownership in the Niger-Delta region. The Warri kingdom, and the Niger-Delta as a whole, is a highly contested space, with longstanding tensions over land and resources. She hopes to use both historical and environmental perspectives to address contemporary concerns of the people in the region. Her website is allegraayida.com and she can be found on Twitter @AllegraHistory