Abosede is an African philosopher who has been teaching philosophy since 2007. She studied and began her academic career at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She conducted her doctoral research in the areas of feminist philosophy and political philosophy. She received her PhD from the University of Ibadan in 2014 with a dissertation on A Maternal Feminist Critique of John Locke's Contractarian Egalitarianism. As a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she conducted research at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. Abosede was a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds in 2022. Her current research focuses on Black feminist studies, African philosophy, global political philosophy, and gender studies.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Abosede was involved in the program Black Feminism and the Polycrisis.