Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the
first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian
video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying the space
between documentary and performance, Saro-Wiwa's videos,
photographs, and sound produced in the Niger Delta region of
southeastern Nigeria from 2013-2015 explore folklore, masquerade
traditions, religious practices, food, and Nigerian popular
aesthetics. Engaging Niger Delta residents as subjects and
collaborators, Saro-Wiwa cultivates strategies of psychic survival
and performance, testing contemporary art's capacity to transform
and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism.
Known for decades for corruption and environmental degradation, the
Niger Delta is one of the largest oil producing regions of the
world, and until 2010 provided the United States with a quarter of
its oil. Saro-Wiwa returns to this contested region-the place of
her birth-to tell new stories. Featuring a guest foreword by
Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa; essays by Stephanie LeMenager, Amy L. Powell,
and Taiye Selasi; an interview with the artist by Chika
Okeke-Agulu; and recipes created by the artist.
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