d’bi.young anitafrika

d’bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian international dub poet, theatre interventionist and decolonial scholar who is committed to creating and nurturing art that ritualises acts of recovery from violence inflicted upon the people and the planet. Shx is a multi-award-winning author of twelve plays, seven albums and four collections of poetry. After receiving hxr Master’s degree from the University of London in 2019, shx was awarded a full Dean’s Scholarship in 2020 by London South Bank University to conduct hxr PhD research in Decolonial Praxis, Performance and Pedagogy in Theatre. In addition to teaching hxr decolonial framework at universities across the globe, d’bi.young has also worked as Theatre Interventionist in the UN’s Global Initiatives Fellowship. Hxr latest book is Dubbin Theatre: The Collected Plays of d’bi.young anitafrika.

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