A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.
A camel trader’s son smiles at a livestock market on Friday ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival outside Egypt’s capital, Cairo…
The next day, money is counted at the livestock market in Hargeisa in the self-declared republic of Somaliland. During the Eid festivities, Muslims who can afford it buy an animal to sacrifice…
Eid is also a time to dress up. In Mali’s capital, Bamako, on Monday a girl decorates a woman’s foot with henna…
On the same day – the eve of Eid – this customer in Bamako shows off her tattooed henna hands and manicured nails…
On Tuesday, a roadside barber shaves a man for the Eid events taking place in Ibafo in south-western Nigeria…
On the same day in Ibafo, a girl kneels near her father at the Eid prayers…
During the prayers in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a boy runs past with a toy gun, often given to children as Eid presents.
On Wednesday, African migrants celebrate after entering an immigration centre in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta…
About 200 migrants managed to jump the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta. These young men perform for the camera on the seafront.
On Monday, someone with a large load in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi passes by the family home of Kofi Annan, the former UN chief who died on Saturday.
A priestess attends a festival on Friday for the Yoruba fertility goddess Osun, in Osogbo in south-western Nigeria…
Thousands travel to the festival, with believers saying the river waters by the Osun Sacred Grove can heal diseases and “cure” infertility.
Students in South Africa protest on Wednesday outside parliament in Cape Town, pleading for amnesty for fellow students convicted after violence during #FeesMustFall protests.
Ugandan opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine appears in court on treason charges on Thursday. He has been in custody for more than a week and is alleged to have been badly beaten by soldiers.
And a man shows off his chapatti-making skills at a festival on Sunday in Uganda’s capital to celebrate the “Rolex”. This is the fast food of choice in Kampala: a vegetable omelette wrapped in a chapatti.Source: www.bbc.com
