The Ikenga

The Ikenga, a 1960s luxury GT car, named after an Igbo icon of achievement. Ebony September 1969.

Expatriate photographer’s dream car stirs GT auto design world in Great Britain

At 29, David Gittens [...] has gained recognition [...] as a member of the growing colony of black Americans who are “making it” abroad[.] [...]

[...] Gittens will probably make the transition from the ranks of the comfortably well-off to those of the wealthy [...] because of the futuristic Ikenga, a car which had its origins somewhere in the mind of a nine-year-old Brooklyn boy two decades ago. [...]

[...] Gittens’ Ikenga (named for a mythical two-horned animal representing man’s life force in the culture of the Ibo tribesmen of West Africa) began to take shape in sketches on a roll of photographic paper in his studio. It was to be a luxury car of the GT ( grand touring) class.