BENEDICT CHUKWUKADIBIA ENWONWU M.B.E (NIGERIAN, 1917-1994) Africa Danc
Provenance : Provenance Purchased by Mr. Griffith Davis in Nigeria, circa 1968. By descent. Griffith Davis (1923-1993) developed his love for photography whilst still at high school in Atlanta. The outbreak of the Second World War forced him to suspend his formal education, but following demobilisation he returned to Atlanta to photograph for the Atlanta Daily World, Time, and Ebony. Davis completed his MA in journalism at Columbia in 1949. Over the next decade, Davis traveled to Africa on multiple occasions to cover significant events for the The New York Times and Ebony, among other publications. In 1952, he was also invited to join the Foreign Service. His first appointment was in Liberia where he was tasked with advancing President Truman’s Point 4 Programe for Foreign Aid (later known as USAID). He later served in Tunisia and Nigeria, before retiring in 1985. Davis’s reputation as a prominent photojournalist preceded him, and on arriving in Nigeria he was soon introduced to the leading political and cultural figures. It was during this period that he befriended Enwonwu and purchased the above painting.
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