{"id":47,"date":"2022-06-13T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:18:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47\" class=\"elementor elementor-47\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_width&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_width_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_width_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_padding&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_padding_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_padding_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_border_radius&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_border_radius_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true},&quot;element_pack_global_tooltip_border_radius_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLinked&quot;:true}}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8fc55ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8fc55ed\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"home\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ef7869f\" data-id=\"ef7869f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d45fab3 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d45fab3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hi, I'm Allegra Ayida!<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b5dd9e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9b5dd9e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Since 2017 my research has been focused in African history, but when I am not doing archival research, interviews, writing up my work. 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wixui-column-strip\"><div class=\"V5AUxf\" data-testid=\"columns\"><div id=\"comp-jsvi56g83\" class=\"comp-jsvi56g83 YzqVVZ wixui-column-strip__column\"><div class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-jsvi56g83inlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\"><div data-mesh-id=\"comp-jsvi56g83inlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\"><div id=\"comp-jsvi56g85\" class=\"HcOXKn c9GqVL QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-jsvi56g85 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">Allegra Ayida is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale, where she is a graduate fellow in the environmental humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, and was named a Nathan Hale Associates fellow by Yale\u2019s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is also a graduate fellow at both European Studies Council and the Council on African Studies at the Yale Macmillan Center. She has worked at the Yale University Art Gallery as a Graduate Curatorial Intern in African Art, and at the literary magazine The Yale Review.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">Allegra\u2019s research interests, span Nigerian history, maritime history, port cities, piracy, Africa-Europe relations, African Art, material culture and plant humanities. She is interested in the trade relationships between European and African traders, and the long history of interactions with different European powers through missionary activity along the west African coastline. She also researches the restitution of stolen\/looted African artefacts and cultural heritage currently held by European museums.<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">Her dissertation project is tentatively titled \u201c Palm-oil, Piracy and Pipeline Politics; An Economic and Environmental history of Warri, Nigeria 1780-1980. \u201cThis project reads French, Italian, English and Nigerian archival sources, alongside ethnographic, photographic, cartographic materials to construct this port city history over three centuries. Allegra given talks about her work at American universities such as Yale University, Columbia University and the University of Colorado, Boulder. As well as British universities such University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Kings\u2019 College London. Allegra\u2019s words have appeared in \u00a0All About History magazine, The Republic Journal, French daily newspaper Lib\u00e9ration and The Guardian, UK. Prior to attending Yale, she earned an M.Phil. from University of Cambridge, an M.A in World History from Kings\u2019 College London and a B.A in History with High Honors from Wesleyan University, CT.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/section><section id=\"comp-lik3n0p62\" class=\"Oqnisf comp-lik3n0p62 wixui-section\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-block-level-container=\"ClassicSection\"><div id=\"bgLayers_comp-lik3n0p62\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-lik3n0p62\">\u00a0<\/div><\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30f0e76 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"30f0e76\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b85b78c\" data-id=\"b85b78c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99a7cb6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"99a7cb6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Book Collection<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80155ec elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"80155ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;none&#039; stroke=&#039;black&#039; stroke-width=&#039;3&#039; stroke-linecap=&#039;square&#039; stroke-miterlimit=&#039;10&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M0,6c6,0,6,13,12,13S18,6,24,6&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87977e6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"87977e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Books from the 54 countries that make up the African continent. 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