Ana Raquel Machava

Ana Raquel Machava is a curator, architect, publisher, and spatial practitioner from Mozambique, currently based in Cape Town. Machava’s work engages with questions of Black spatial thinking, emerging at the intersection of youth agency, urban infrastructure and contemporary arts. Through publishing and exhibition making as means of investigation, their work experiments new methodologies for understanding and intervening in space, oriented by the desire of imagining and rendering liberated futures for Black societies and territories. Machava is the founder of Waithood Magazine, a periodical that foregrounds emerging contemporary African artists and fugitive epistemologies to comprehend the complexities of the human experience through a maroonage perspective. Machava is currently a Master in Arts and History candidate at the Historical Studies Department, University of the Western Cape.