[1] Born on a ship traveling on the Atlantic Ocean en route to São Tomé and Principe, Anahory lived there for seven years before being raised in Cape Verde.

[1] Her research funded by the scholarship involved traveling across the African continent to study the relationship between architecture and identity.

[6] Since that same year, Anahory has served on the Board of Academic Advisors at the African Futures Institute (AFI), an independent postgraduate center for architectural research in Ghana, led by Royal Gold Medal winner Lesley Lokko.

[14] She also co-curates her(e), otherwise, an experimental platform that invites African and diaspora women architects to interrogate notions of representation and belonging.

[3] Her research focuses on "interrogating narratives of belonging across geopolitical, memory, race, gender constructs, and on exploring the politics of identity from an African island perspective.