Monthly essays questioning the orthodoxies of our time. By two cross-cultural strategists, for anyone looking for new ways forward in an upended world.
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The Fool and the Moon
As I emerge from maternity leave, I am marvelling at this moment. I’ve had an incredible yet unpredictable year. My debut novel was published in August, seven years after I first started writing it. And in April, nine years after my daughte...
Privacy as a Practice
Privacy is my favorite human right.
I remember the moment when, in my South African primary school, I learned that privacy wasn’t just something I craved in my busy, noisy, and frankly nosy home, but something I and all my classmates were...
Creative Work in Destructive Times
Close readers of Legit will have noticed that this monthly publication did not publish in May or June.
Close friends of mine will guess that this break in an otherwise perfect publishing schedule has made me more than a little uneasy.
Whi...
Personal Brands Won’t Save Us
Last summer, I decided to take a break from full time work. As I explained at the time, I sensed I was ready for a change in my career, but felt too exhausted, confused, and - if I’m honest - overwhelmed by world events to make one. So, I t...
One Year of Legit 🎉
Almost a year ago, this newsletter made its way out of our group chat and onto the internet. As we wrote in our first post, the idea for Legit came from our sense that the world was changing beyond recognition, and a belief that interrogati...
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Where every orthodoxy is up for revision • Monthly essays by strategists and writers Fauzia Musa (LDN 🇬🇧) and Zami Majuqwana (NYC 🇺🇸)
British American writer and strategist based in London. My debut novel The Strangling Fig comes out spring 2026 (HarperCollins).
🇬🇧/🇿🇦 design strategist in NYC • Co-author of LEGIT, where every orthodoxy is up for revision • Writes essays exploring technology, institutions, and identity.
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