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Mbua's career began in 1979 when she began work at the [[National Museums of Kenya]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Emma Mbua {{!}} TrowelBlazers|url=https://trowelblazers.com/emma-mbua/|access-date=2021-03-11}}</ref> She applied for a role there after finishing her A-Levels at [[Lugulu Girls School]].<ref name=":1">Thang'wa, Josephine. "[https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02578301_246 The evolution of East Africa's first African woman palaeoanthropologist.]" ''Kenya Past and Present'' 32.1 (2001): 72-75.</ref> After co-authoring academic papers for several years, she was began an MPhil qualification at the University of Liverpool in 1993.<ref name=":1" /> She completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with [[Gunter Brauer]] in 2001, in which she studied the transition of [[homo erectus]] to modern humans.<ref name=":1" /> She is the first woman from East Africa to have a career as a paleoanthropologist.<ref name=":1" />
Mbua has worked at a number of different sites during her career including at Turkana and Sibiloi National Park.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mutu|first=Kari|date=2015|title=Kenya: Scientist Finds Early Human Fossils Near Nairobi|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201505201565.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She is
In her role at National Museums Kenya, she gave author [[Bill Bryson]] a behind-the-scenes tour of the collections, which featured in his book ''African Diary.''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-01-05|title=Bill Bryson's African Diary|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/readouts/bill-brysons-african-diary/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=B&N Readouts|language=en-US}}</ref>
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