The performance is strongest when Kamuyu is dancing.
When she asks audience members if they know what it feels like to be othered, the question is merely rhetorical.
Instead of reaching out to the people in front of her, she talks back to absent villains of privilege.
Responding to the colonialist sound of a documentary about the Kikuyu chief Wangu wa Makeri, Kamuyu asks vital questions about who gets to recount history and who gets to express opinions — vital questions that are commonplace and elementary.
She ends with the facts of where she was born and where she now resides, and her dancing body suggests where she is most at home.
Persons:
Wangu, Kamuyu, “, Wanjiru Kamuyu
Organizations:
clarion
Locations:
France, Africa