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Amuna Wagner

(She/Her)
Cologne
As seen in: Okayafrica, Truthdig, Egyptian Streets, Capital Ethiopia, Pan African Music, Skin Deep, Aux sons, AMAKA Studio, The Floor Mag
Covers:  Politics (Europe, North Africa, Arab World), Music (Pan-African), Feminist Activisms, Arts & Culture, Migration, LGBTQ+, Film, Literature

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Amuna Wagner is a German-Sudanese writer, journalist, and educator. She studied International Relations and Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a special interest in decolonising processes and the politics of gender. She works as North Africa correspondent at OkayAfrica and is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Amuna co-founded and edits Kandaka, a platform that imagines feminist futures at the interse…

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In Gnaoua Music, Color Guides Spiritual Healing Experiences

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By Amuna Wagner
| Okayafrica Verified
MUSIC The sacred ceremonies of Gnaoua invoke spirits through music and color. In conversation with a Gnaoua member, OkayAfrica breaks down the significance of each color for spiritual healing. The sacred ceremonies of Gnaoua music invoke spirits. Each spirit has a song, a color, and incense. Each spirit has something either to drink or to eat – all the senses are involved. Faouzia Belkani first fell into jadba (trance) when she was ten years old.
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El Mehdi’s Art Expresses Queerness Through His Moroccan Heritage

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By Amuna Wagner
| Okayafrica Verified
MUSIC An image becomes a song, a word inspires a video, and forgotten aspects of Moroccan culture return in El Mehdi’s beautiful visual worlds. “I want to show that when we merge culture and tradition with queerness and fluidity, it’s harmonious.” - El Mehdi Men in white gandouras are lined up in a Moroccan Riad. In rhythm with the hum of a male voice, they pour tea from one glass into the other, a familiar gesture many Moroccan parents use to cool tea before giving it to their children.
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The Rich Sudanese Tapestry of the Elgizouli Sisters

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By Amuna Wagner
| Okayafrica Verified
In 2018, one year before the revolution, a music video made the rounds in Khartoum. A young woman stands in front of a light-blue Sudanese house, wearing various colorful toubs, and singing confidently yet nonchalantly into the camera. In one shot, she wears earrings made from bougainvillea flowers that grow outside the house; in another, she dances in a pink dress, with pink plastic balls attached to long braids bobbing around her waist.
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