Throughout his life, Enwonwu constantly expressed the theme of ādanceā in his works. He painted and sculpted a lot of iconic pieces with this theme. The image of the black woman was a cultural icon of Negritude and Enwonwu vividly used it in his dance series although he clearly stated that his use of the female figure was an invocation of āthe feminine force of the earth (Igbo: Ala/Ani) and not the generic images of womanhood in negritude artā.
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