d’bi.young anitafrika is a queer nonbinary African-Xaymacan-Tkarontonian dub poet, monodramatist and Black feminist decolonial scholar.

They are committed to embodying liberatory art practices that ritualise acts of emancipation from oppressions inflicted upon the people and the planet. The three-time Dora-award-winning Canadian Poet of Honour, author of twelve plays, seven albums, and four collections of poetry, was recently celebrated as a Global Leader in Theatre and Performance by Arts Council England and is the 2021 recipient of the Rosemary Sadlier Freedom Award. d’bi.young’s PhD research investigates how Black womxn theatre-makers in Canada, cultivate decolonial praxes and pedagogies of transformation through performance. Their doctoral thesis further develops the Anitafrika Method—a Black-queer-feminist framework that emerges out of the dub theory of Anita Stewart (d’bi.young’s mother).

Throughout the last twenty-five years, d’bi.young has written poetry, created plays, published books, developed a decolonial framework and founded Black-queer-feminist initiatives such as fiwi aat space, anitafrika dub theatre, Spolrusie Press, Watah Theatre and Ubuntu! Decolonial Arts Centre. Their commitment to designing and facilitating decolonial artist-mentorship opportunities has facilitated the growth and development of hundreds of artists on Turtle Island, in the Caribbean, in Africa and in Europe.

CHAPTERS

PART 1

1. What is The Anitafrika Method?
2. Decolonizing in the Arts
3. Mentorship as a Model for Learning

Part 2

1. The 12th Elements of The Anitafrika Method
2. Self-Knowledge
3. Breaking Down The Anitafrika Method
4. The Method is for Everyone