I am fascinated by Nigerian Pentecostals facing travel restrictions due to holding a Nigerian passport, while at the same time maintaining the belief of crossing borders physically and mentally in the future.

Through a multi-sited ethnography, I followed a particular church’s transnational network across Nigeria, Germany, and Austria to understand how mobility aspirations are entangled with church practices of expansion.

My PhD project contributed to broader questions of mobility, immobility, and religion by focusing on how people’s migration experiences are shaped through their beliefs and transnational church structures.

I’m currently preparing a book manuscript entitled “Ready to Move: Female-Embodied Mobility in Nigerian Pentecostalism” based on this research.