Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa.
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.

This publication accompanied the exhibitions at Blaffer Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.