Over a year, a trained group of 6 young people from the community of the Island of Mozambique conducted research and interviews by delving into the daily routine of men and women for whom the sea is the extension of their lives. They recorded and documented the sea stories and chants, traditional techniques of boat building, sailing and fishing of men and women, the violent memory of slavery and wars, the rituals and the interpretation of nature and climate crisis.

The result is an extensive archive database and 7-episode series podcast, entitled Dhowcast, that brilliantly blends sea chants and stories of the Island of Mozambique’s cultural heritage through an immersion into this unique and melodic traditional maritime culture of the southern Indian Ocean Coastal region that is at the verge of disappearing.