Júlia Barata draws colonial memory through Mozambique and graphic narrative

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

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.

Summarised from BUALA · Tiago Lança e Júlia Barata. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.