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As Adzido’s book, <i>Traditional Dances of Sub-Saharan Africa</i> (2003) explains, ‘Some of the movements, such as the presentation of arms, wrestling and boxing, wooden horse leaps and bayonet charges are all motifs from the arms drill of the French Colonial soldiers.’\n\r\nThis costume appeared in Adzido's 1999-2001 production, <i>Sankofa</i>, where the Adzogbo was used to finish the show.\n\nThe skirt is made of printed cotton textiles known as Ankara, African-print cloth or Dutch wax, which have been fashionable in West and East Africa since the late 19th century. Ankara as a textile is historically rooted in colonial global trade, as Europeans replicated Indonesian batik and began to export wax fabrics across Africa. 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