ABOUT

MONAMOHAU

embodiment of ancestral manifestations

DANCER • CULTURAL PRACTITIONER • CREATIVE CONSULTANT • ORGANIZER • ACCOUNTANT

MonaMohau is an African artist, cultural practitioner, and a prominent figure in the Swedish scene for African dance styles. Her artistic work in dance is pluricultural and bridges traditional and urban African dances, honoring heritage, roots and rhythms. At the core of her practice is a clear purpose: to evoke remembering of ancestry, embodied knowledge, and cultural continuity — so that dance remains art, ritual, resistance and reconnection. She sees herself as a cultural bridge connecting generations, wisdom, and geographies through movement, artistry, and community work.

MonaMohau’s artistic journey spans several years of experience. While her background includes styles within Swing & vernacular jazz, her passion remains firmly rooted in African dances in their many forms: traditional, social, and contemporary. Her path led her to École des Sables in Senegal: Africa’s most renowned international centre for traditional and contemporary African dances, where she completed a one-year certification and deepened her practice under some of the continent’s most respected teachers and choreographers.

Her work has led to collaborations with artists and creators across genres and borders, including appearances for global platforms such as YouTube, Red Bull, and Netflix. She has been featured in interviews and documentaries highlighting Sweden’s Afrobeats landscape and broader African cultural movements. In recognition of her contributions, MonaMohau recently received an Attestation de reconnaissance for her work celebrating African culture, unity, and influence beyond borders.

Most recently, through the platform La Guinée Faré, she organized an album release concert for a Guinean griot in Sweden — making history as one of the largest independently organized African concerts in the country, created by Africans for Africans, without external funding, collaborations, or donations. Her dedication to cultural visibility extends across borders: she contributed to a major casting project in Ghana, helping select 400 dancers to represent their nation at the Opening Ceremony of the All African Games. She also engages in modeling, commercial work, artistic curation, and community-building, with an unwavering focus on representation and cultural continuity.

Through her platform UBUNTU BASE, she curates spaces for culture: weaving together dance, music, food, and shared experience — all deeply rooted in community and collective memory. In addition to her own creative journey, MonaMohau actively works as a support system for fellow African artists and creatives, amplifying their voices and fostering opportunities for collaboration and growth.

ECONOMY, STRUCTURE & CULTURE

Alongside her artistic and cultural work, MonaMohau is also an accounting professional in training, focusing on financial management and advisory work for creatives, cultural organisations, and small businesses. With firsthand experience as a freelancer and cultural organiser, she understands both the emotional, political, and spiritual dimensions of African cultural work — and the practical need for structure, budgets, bookkeeping, and sustainable financial systems.

Her economic practice is an extension of her mission: to strengthen African pluricultural communities not only symbolically, but structurally. She supports artists, cultural workers, and organisations with tools for clearer finances, long-term planning, and informed decision-making, so that important cultural work does not collapse under administrative or economic pressure.

MonaMohau is devoted to representation, dignity, and the long-term visibility of African cultures in Europe. Her dual practice reflects a core belief that art and structure are complementary disciplines. Whether performing on stage, teaching in a studio, advising a client, or facilitating a community gathering, her work and her purpose remains the same: to defend, honour, and sustain African cultures and communities, in body, spirit, and in the books.

“Defend our culture – representation matters. And so does the structure that allows it to survive.”