Pre-Order dubbin theatre vol 1: the sankofa trilogy featuring blood.claat, benu & word! sound! powah! by d’bi.young anitafrika available Summer 2025 from Spolrusie Publishing.

The collection features three plays written by d’bi.young anitafrika from 2000-2010: blood.claat, benu & word! sound! powah! Volumes 2 and 3 will follow, featuring the Orisha Trilogy and the Ibeyi Trilogy. This is the second title in the Dubbin Trilogy which also features dubbin poetry: the collected poems of d’bi.young anitafrika. The third title in the trilogy—dubbin praxis: an intro to the anitafrika method—will be available after the completion of d’bi.young’s PhD in 2025.

Dubbin Theatre: The Sankofa Trilogy Vol. 1 brings together d’bi.young anitafrika’s visionary Dora Award-winning biomyth monodramas—blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!—alongside the raw and powerful biomyth monologue bathroom floor, in one transformative volume. Across three generations of Jamaican womyn—Mudgu Sankofa, her daughter Sekesu, and granddaughter Benu—this trilogy charts journeys of becoming, mothering, healing, and r/evolution.

Each play is written and performed in the genre d’bi.young created Biomyth Monodrama, a solo theatre form that blends autobiography, mythology, and African futurism in dub poetry/dub theatre style. Rooted in the Anitafrika Method, the work moves through memory (re/membering), myth (re/storying), and liberation (re/futuring) to transform lived experience into ritual performance. From a teenager’s rite of passage (blood.claat), to a mother’s search for healing (benu), to the rebirth of dubpoetry through youth-led resistance (word! sound! powah!), each play conjures theatre as a play-space of personal, political, and ancestorial transformation.

As a biomythicist, anitafrika offers performance as a method for how to heal, dream, and mobilise through theatre. Dubbin Theatre: The Sankofa Trilogy Vol. 1 is a vital literature from one of the most original voices in contemporary theatre.

“There is hope here…Underpinning all of the work that anitafrika writes, performs, creates, [and] channels is Ubuntu: “I am because you/we are.” I am. We are. It is.” — Natalie Wall, PhD