Mukhtara Yusuf

Yussuf Murktarat

Mukhtara Yusuf is a Yoruba-Nigerian-Muslim visual artist/scholar, cultural activist and designer. Their work focuses on decolonizing design, sustainability, alternative economies and design in the global south. Their creative art practice explores links between issues of trauma, black mental health, and afrofuturism by exploring larger conceptual motifs of colonial time, indigenous epistemology and material counter memory. Other themes in their work, through scholarly research, curation, and activism include afro-Islamic identity marginalization, queerness, and African urban landscapes.