Caroline Sohie | Blood Stars (2024)

The Swahili coast stretches beneath a sky heavy with memory. The land is contested: once a point where people captured from the hinterland were shipped into slavery and a stage for colonial imposition, it now faces the prospect of a global container port along the New Silk Road. Amid these layers of violence and extraction, the coast remains a living ecology, shaping identity, ritual, and daily life. Blood Stars captures the tension of this place: between erasure and ancient beauty, between history’s weight and the uncertain promise of transformation.