Senghor, in his poetry, projected the uniqueness of African beauty. The Black woman is one of the poems he used to depict the strength, beauty, and erotic nature of Africa and African women.

The poem presents two sides of the African Black women; the physical erotic nature of the woman and the emotional caring mother. The poem also presents two ideologies: the African land as a mother and the uniqueness of the African woman. The poet manages to play between these two images to elucidate the power and beauty of blackness in Africa. Through the use of repetition, he reinstated his subject matter, that is, the black woman.