Jelili Atiku is a multimedia Nigerian artist. Born in 1968 in Ejigbo, he lives and works in Lagos. Combining different media—sculpture, performance, and video—his artistic production addresses the cultural, social, and political issues of contemporary societies. Violence, poverty, corruption, religion, and even climate change are the subjects that permeate his work. For Jelili Atiku, performance should be used to serve justice. Mainly given in public spaces, the artist’s performances, where he puts his body to the test, seek to enrich our understanding and experience of the world so that we become the actors and actresses of an individual, social, and environmental transformation. Jelili Atiku’s E Don Tey Wey We Dey (We have been alive a long time) explores one of the painful legacies of colonialism: the forced eviction of indigenous peoples from their land.