Njabulo Hlophe (b. 1996 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an illustrator and visual artist based in Johannesburg operating under the pseudonym Dirty Native Chief. He describes his practice as storytelling, offering glimpses into the human experience. Njabulo completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography in the Western Cape, where he conceptualized and created Studio Dirty Native.

Njabulo’s work is can be seen as a response to observations about human life, and not only as a means to scrutinize and critique the human experience but rather a means to explore it and how he exists in relation to that particular experience as a young black cultural hybrid walking the contemporary landscape.