Black Woman

Name: Black Woman
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Emmanuel Abakah

$55.00

A woman in profile, looking forward, with the map of Africa tattooed on her neck. It is Ghanaian artist Emmanuel Abakah's portrait of a woman who is bold and deeply rooted.

Black Woman is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

Emmanuel Abakah painted her in profile on purpose. She is not seeking validation, he says; she is looking forward. That one decision carries the whole portrait: a woman who knows exactly who she is and isn't waiting for anyone to agree.

Look at her neck, half framed by a gold hoop. It is a tattoo of the map of Africa, and it is the heart of the work. She carries the continent wherever she goes, as a mark on her own skin. Her red glasses, in Emmanuel's words, stand for power, style and fearlessness. He made her to lift up Black women in their own identity. He wants them to embrace their boldness, and to know, as he puts it, that they are the blueprint.

Motifs in this work

The Africa tattoo: the continent, carried on her skin

Red glasses: power, style and fearlessness

In profile: looking forward, not seeking validation

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 20 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Year: 2021
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	9 × 12 in	7½ × 9¾ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Emmanuel Abakah

Undeclared · Takoradi, Ghana · 3 works on Raknida

Emmanuel Abakah is a self-taught artist in Takoradi, Ghana. He started as a child with graphite pencils, teaching himself realistic drawing. He later carried that discipline into digital painting, where his drawings take on bold, saturated colour. His subject is the Black woman: her beauty, strength and identity. A woman with vitiligo at sunrise, a mermaid with an afro and a crown, a woman who wears Africa on her skin. He makes each portrait so that women see themselves as powerful, unique and worthy of celebration.

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