[5] In a few months she opened up her business, "Mrs. Felicia Abban's Day and Night Quality Art Studio" in the centre of Jamestown, Accra in 1955.

Felicia's husband, Richard Abban, designed the fabric with Kwame Nkrumah's portrait on flowers with a map of Ghana for the country's independence celebrations in 1957.

[7] James Barnor's photography studio in the early 1950s and captured intimate moments of luminaries and key political figures, including Ghana's first prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah as he pushed for pan-African unity and independence from colonial rule.

[8] In Abban's early career she also worked for the Guinea Press Limited, now known as The Ghana Times, which was also the publishing house of Kwame Nkrumah's Conventions People's Party when he became president.

What is consistent throughout these diverse photographs is the way in which Abban used clothing to visibly articulate a feminine identity that played with the traditional and contemporary in an artful hybridity described as urbane and trans-Atlantic.

[2] Nana Oforiatta Ayim also curated Ghana Freedom the first Ghanaian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019, which included Abban among the six artists chosen.

Abban's portraits and self-portraits rendered a moment in Ghanaian history through her own female gaze that captured not only their style but also attitude during its time.