Electronic act African Imperial Wizard exposed as white guy in Africa-themed KKK cosplay – Paste Magazine

A person wearing a colorful, patterned garment and tall pointed hat stands in front of a blurry, monochrome background, evoking an eerie blend reminiscent of African Imperial Wizard KKK cosplay.

In news that suggests the industrial scene should have its festival lineups vetted by UNESCO, the experimental band Xiu Xiu revealed on Instagram that African Imperial Wizard—the “tribal industrial” act claiming Angolan liberation-war pedigree and an ancestral hotline to the spirit world—is actually just a middle-aged white man in a hood. A hood, of course, modeled after a Klan robe, but sewn from (what white people think of as) “African” fabrics and…