My continent of Africa, Beware the vampires قارتي أفريقيا، احذري مصاصي الدماء

In the absence of agency over fragmented narratives, how do anti-fascist rhythms resist and reveal the roots of oppressive systems? Through sound and image we further inquire into the imperial profiting from a neocolonial industry, which operates between the Sahara desert of Libya and the borders of the Mediterranean sea.

The audiovisual performance examines the spatial convolution and temporal rupture in connection to the often complexified socio-political landscape of Libya. While African indigenous music was banned, artists were exiled and instruments were burned in public squares, Ghaddafi was capitalising on Pan-African propaganda as an ideological means to strengthen his position on the continent, however, the spirit of African unity had already existed across generations amongst its people. The exploration of Arabic speaking Reggae in Africa, folkloric Libyan music and oral poetry, sampling and field recordings conducted in Tripoli, transforms into a soundscape that lives through an original soundsystem handmade by Azadi collective, giving homage to the sonic resistance movement in post-war Jamaica, that played a pivotal role in shaping music culture worldwide.

Voice, archived footage and manipulated CGI imagery, render visible and audible a narration on what has been erased from the public eye – the engineering of the European colonial projects feeding on Libya as an infrastructure of the military industrial complex resulting in the orchestrating of militias, mercenaries, proxy/civil war, land extraction and detention centers.