For generations, cassava has been pulled from the earth by women who understood its dual nature—food and poison, sustenance and sabotage. Records tell us that some enslaved Black women hid traces of the root beneath their fingernails, carrying a quiet insurgency in the smallest crease of the body. Their hands became thresholds between survival and refusal, protection and empowerment.

In We Have The Cure, Kosisochukwu Nnebe extends this lineage of Black feminist innovation into the present. Working across textiles, video, and installation, she brings together storytelling, historical reflection, and political activism. Her materials—cassava, indigo, fabric—evoke interconnected histories of resistance, healing, and survival. We Have The Cure honours these histories and asks what remains at our fingertips today: how women continue to make, resist, and reimagine in a world structured against their flourishing.

Catalogue written by Megan Kammerer, co-edited by Samantha Lance and Kosisochukwu Nnebe