NATAAL MAGAZINE ISSUE 2

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A poem by Julianknxx written exclusively for Nataal

Backyard sugarcane molasses, music through my teeth. Morning cockcrow alarms, orange sunsets, kissing me dark. Showed me a history in blackouts. Evening cricket blues, all summer years gave smiles, wrapped in dreams – despite war. This land, a skipping rock, no lion faces in the mountains. Black bodies targets, black cuffed boys, black girls stripped, black skin grey, Barren borders, all these starlets dreams, washed. Truth biting our history, our hopes silent, searching change.

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LEBOHANG KGANYE Exploring the relationship between memory, fantasy and family history

8min
pages 197-202

DIGITAL IDENTITIES AND REAL SELVES An essay on the dissemination of contemporary and digital African mobilities

15min
pages 161-168

BORN FREE? A survey of the Market Photo Workshop

16min
pages 187-196

INUA ELLAMS Thunder gods have been summoned in this wordsmith’s latest literary work

10min
pages 125-128

ODE TO DAKAR A lyrical and visual journey through the Senegalese city

2min
pages 153-160

FOR THE CULTURE The vanguard shaping Lagos’s creative scene

10min
pages 129-140

Y NGYE YENI Capturing the fine art of enjoyment in late 1980s Ghana by Saman Archive

4min
pages 121-124

JENN NKIRU The filmmaker on recalibrating the black image

9min
pages 117-120

RUBY ONYINYECHI AMANZE Exploring the playful worlds within the work of this extraordinary artist

8min
pages 113-116

LA SUNDAY Step into the party of a generation in Abidjan

8min
pages 105-108

LUKHANYO MDINGI This fast-emerging designer is grounded in gold for AW19

3min
pages 101-104

L’ENCHANTEUR Dynasty and Soull Ogun bring forth spiritual healing with their powerful designs

7min
pages 69-72

BLOKE Meet the winner of the inaugural Emerge ALÁRA award

2min
pages 85-88

ANAÏS The London-based music maker confronting the Darkness at Play

7min
pages 61-64

NA CHAINKUA REINDORF Nubuke Foundation curator Bianca Ama Manu in conversation with this emerging artist

5min
pages 59-60

TYLER MITCHELL A glimpse at the famed photographer’s black utopia

1min
pages 43-44

WANURI KAHIU Tales of joy with the celebrated filmmaker

3min
page 42

DAVID ADJAYE A vision for the National Cathedral of Ghana in Accra

2min
page 41

PRECIOUS TRUST The Amazigh designer showing the sartorial side of Algeria

2min
page 38

COCO & GIDEON Two Lagos-based models setting fresh beauty standards

2min
pages 39-40

THE AFRICA CENTER Stepping inside the freshly opened NYC institution with CEO Uzodinma Iweala

3min
page 37

MARIAM KAMARA The architect shaping the future of Niger

4min
pages 31-32

MISSING SIERRA Exclusive new work from poet Julianknxx

1min
pages 35-36

LA MÊME GANG Six young men whose brotherhood is reenergising music in Accra

4min
pages 33-34

CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY Get acquainted with the stripped back sounds of this soulful singer

3min
pages 29-30

KIALA KANZI The jewellery designer crafting complex simplicity

2min
page 28

FUSE ODG Building a new Ghana with its leader of afrobeats

4min
page 27

JENNA BASS This rule-breaking filmmaker on shaking up South African storytelling

4min
pages 25-26

TEAM

4min
page 16

AMAARAE This Ghanaian songstress stands out from the pack

4min
pages 19-20

THE NEST AT SOSSUS A view of this Porky Hefer-designed Namibian nest

3min
pages 21-22

CONTRIBUTORS

3min
pages 17-18

SOLA The warped soul of this young singer

2min
pages 23-24
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