A continent. A diaspora.
A conversation.
OPENING THE JOURNAL
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BUALA outlines Coimbra’s Afro-Portugal festival, whose visual-arts programme includes O Nosso Lugar no Agora at Casa da Esquina and a residency for two young Afro-descendant artists. The exhibition brings together eight emerging practitioners. Across exhibitions, film and discussion, the festival asks how African and Afro-descendant creators can shape their representation and futures in Portugal.
In BUALA, Júlia Barata discusses adapting Isabela Figueiredo’s Caderno de Memórias Coloniais into graphic narrative. Drawing on her childhood in post-independence Maputo, she reflects on privilege, racism and the visual possibilities of watercolour. The interview connects her treatment of colonial memory with experimental comics, everyday feminism and collective learning in Buenos Aires.