The Drama of NollyBabes
Sisters connected through their love of Nollywood films of the early 2000s and the aesthetic vibrance of the female characters that carried the industry, curate a selection of scenes defining what real drama looks like
Genetic Imagination
Visual artist Curtis Santiago, on his theory of ancestral joy, the necessity of preserving stories, and what he cares to leave behind
El Matador
Raised in Madrid, Spain, Citizen fashion director Juanjose Mouko Nsue translates the power and the silhouette of the matador de toro into a present-day sort of cool.
A Woven Fabric
For Issue 003, we capture the 21st-century confluence of many joining together to make a singular tapestry, the thoughts of those bringing forth new threads and the look of it all.
A Work In Progress
Visual artist Kesewa Aboah takes us through her mind and world as she explores what it feels like to transform the thoughts in her head into art that lives in the real world.
Out of the Trojan Horse
Breakbeat jungle pioneer Goldie offers photographer Fenn O’Meally his thoughts on what to do when you get behind the gates.
Selected Works: Torishéju
Through deep historical research and imaginative interpretations, garment designer, Torishéju Dumi, bridges the gap between fantasy and reality, in this special edition of “Selected Works”, a bright team of creatives joins her to bring her world or garments and wonder to life.
What Does That Even Mean?
Writer Michael R. Jackson and Citizen senior editor Kevin Quinn question our current use of language and discuss the need for precision in art and contemporary discourse.
Roxane x Numa: The In-Between
In that odd purgatory between the election and election results, two women, meet for the first time to discuss America, sex work, writing, and more—finding what they share and what they know.
Truth is as Strange as “American Fiction”
Writer and director Cord Jefferson in conversation with writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Sheila Atim is Falling In Love
Laughing all the way, actress and singer, Sheila Atim talks with novelist Taiye Selasi about Uganda, her path from science to singing to acting, and why she’s having a good time.
A Style Story
New York based, stylist, and cool girl, Becky Akinyode is the personification of self-expression, of “come-with-my-whole-self”. Interpreting a selection of pieces from Burberry, she expresses in clothing and words her own unique fashion story.
