She attended the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria for 3 years, studying Urban and Regional Planning,[5] and left in 1997.
[6] During her time in the UK, she began cooking Nigerian food to feel closer to home.
[8] Upon her return to Nigeria in 2011, she began researching familiar Nigerian ingredients and their uses from the perspective of culinary anthropology.
[11] In 2018 Sokoh created Feast Afrique, an online curated collection of books relating to the culinary history of West Africa and its diaspora.
[12][13][8][14] This collection includes a digital library of 240+ West African and diasporic culinary and literary resources.