“They’re making fun of my Arabic,” whispers my cousin as he squeezes next to me. I roll my eyes, unwilling to move…
Amuna Wagner
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 decolonizing processes and the politics of gender. In her work, Amuna explores the many ways through which we heal ourselves and others: ancestry, identity, pleasure activism, feminist spiritualities, and creative knowledge production. She works as North Africa correspondent at OkayAfrica and is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.