Order dubbin theatre vol 1: the sankofa trilogy featuring three plays and one biomyth monologue—blood.claat, benu, word! sound! powah! and bathroom floor by d’bi.young anitafrika, available September 24, 2025 from Spolrusie Publishing.

dubbin theatre vol 1: the sankofa trilogy brings together d’bi.young anitafrika’s visionary Dora Award-winning biomyth monodramas of the Sankofa Trilogy, 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 biomyth monodrama genre of d’bi.young—a theatre form that blends autobiography, mythology, and Africanfuturism in dub poetry/dub theatre form. 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, d’bi.young offers performance as a method to heal, to dream, and to mobilise through theatre. dubbin theatre vol 1 : the sankofa trilogy 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