Wekaforé Maniu Jibril is a renaissance man. Based in Barcelona, the Nigerian artist is a fashion designer for his eponymous brand, writer and singer with band Egosex and founder of rave night The Voodoo Children’s Club. And now the latter has morphed into a music label and model agency, aptly titled The Voodoo Children’s Agency.

This young talent’s latest venture has the laudable aim of diversifying and disrupting European beauty standards by introducing more queer and Black bodies into Spanish media. The first project from the agency is Negro Con Estilo featuring Spirit Disco (Wekaforé’s pseudonym) and musician Jimmy Bones.

Directed by the artist and with stills shot by Sol Bela, a Barcelona-based photographer from Equatorial Guinea, the video riffs on police brutality and stars Nataal favourite, jewellery designer Kiala Kanzi. In less dextrous hands, the subject matter would be bleak but somehow, the video – and the trumpet-fuelled, effervescent rap track that drives it - represents solidarity and resilience in the diaspora. This is a gloriously colourful coming together of a community at work, rest and play.

Read our full profile on Wekaforé here.

Read our issue two interview with Kiala Kanzi here.

Direction and starring Wekaforé
Photography Sol Bela
Visit The Voodoo Children’s Agency
Visit Spirit Disco
Visit Jimmy Bones

Published on 11/11/2020