She is broadly interested in the peculiar intersectionalities of violent displacement, liminality, spiritual transcendence, egalitarian African Moral Orders, religion, and race or ethnicity in regard to black female colonial and postcolonial subjectivity. Her dissertation project attempted to examine the aforementioned intersectionalities within select border-shifting or trans-national novels by contemporary African writers. Chapters of her dissertation have been published in Research in African Literatures. Mabura is also a children’s and fiction author.