The Kentake of Kush delivers an accolade to one of her finest soldiers, as represented by her tapping a sword onto his shoulder. Think of it as her way of knighting him.
You might recognize this as being based on the classic painting “The Accolade” by the British artist Edmund Leighton, which had a medieval European queen knighting one of her soldiers. What I wanted to do here was to take a classic piece of European artwork and put an African spin on its theme.