ISBN 978-09938292-5-3
This card deck represents a concise version of d’bi.young’s Anitafrika Method. The system is an intersectional anti-oppressive, anti-colonial liberation framework utilised by artists, instigators, educators, and change-makers globally, which cultivates self-actualisation, creativity, and leadership in its practitioners.
The Anitafrika Method emerges out of Jamaica’s Dub Poetry and the Caribbean’s popular theatre and was inspired by the seminal dub theory work of anitafrika’s mother, pioneer dub poet Anita Stewart.
The acronym S.P.O.L.R.U.S.I.E represents the method's nine foundational principles of Self-knowledge, Politics, Orality, Language, Rhythm, Urgency, Sacredness, Integrity and Experience balanced by nine bodies: Beyond Body, Spiritual, Mental, Community, Emotional, Economic, Creative, Physical and Earth Body.
Images that appear on the cards were designed by Chiedza Pasipapanodya.