Amuna Wagner
Meet the Instructor
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. 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.
Amuna regularly facilitates creative writing workshops. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne where she is working on her first novel. She co-founded and edits Kandaka, a platform that imagines feminist futures at the intersection of art and activism.
Amuna co-created a one year programme in Feminist Studies that ran at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2021/2022. She facilitated the three-month creative writing and close-reading course "Reading Feminism/Writing To Live" which published "High Priestess in Low Tides: A Zine From Cairo to the World", edited by herself and Mariam Diefallah.
Amuna was awarded the Tejumola Olaniyan Fellowship at The Africa Institute in Sharjah (2023) and selected as Writer in Residence at the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Ghana (2021). Her work has been published on Project Myopia, Africa Is a Country, The Pan African Music Magazine, Amaka Studio, Egyptian Streets, Skin Deep, Meeting of Minds, shado mag, Rosa Mag, sweetthangzine as well as part of auftakt festival (2023)and Fringe of Colour (2021). She lives between Cologne, Germany and Cairo, Egypt.