Wacelia Zualo is a Mozambican artist, textile designer, researcher and healing practitioner working at the intersection of material innovation, ancestral knowledge and craft. She is the founder of Woogui, a brand creating sustainable accessories using local materials such as banana fiber and recycled plastic, and co-founder of Karingana Textiles, a studio dedicated to natural dyes, regenerative textiles and storytelling through cloth. Her work is rooted in African philosophies of land, body and spirit as interconnected. Through ongoing research and collaboration with artisans and traditional knowledge holders, she explores how textiles can hold emotional and medicinal value, what she calls healing textiles. These are not only non-toxic and natural but also carry intention, memory and ritual. Wacelia’s practice draws on plant-based processes, indigenous materials and textile-making as a form of spiritual dialogue. As a traditional healer, she sees fabric as a second skin, something that can protect, restore and reconnect us with the earth and with ourselves. She currently develops small-batch collections, healing objects and material experiments, while also facilitating learning spaces that link creativity, ecology and ancestral technologies.