A selection of photos from around Africa this week:
Nigeria’s commercial, capital, Lagos, held its annual carnival on Saturday…Some students watched performances through the school fence…A comedian entertained the crowd by “eating” broken glass…While these young people chose to enjoy the day by rollerskating…Four days later, an Egyptian singer celebrates the birthday of Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in CairoOn Friday, a piece entitled “Slave Chain with Four Yokes” from a voodoo convent in Benin, is displayed a museum in Point-a-Pitre in France to commemorate the abolition of the slave tradeThe next day, refugees sit on a wall with a mural on hygiene at the Dadaab camp in north-eastern Kenyan. It is the world’s largest refugee camp, accommodating mainly SomalisIn South Africa on Sunday, birds take off and land on an aerial in a suburban garden in Johannesburg…While on Wednesday, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o poses as she arrives for the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in south-eastern FranceOn Saturday, Bastia’s Ivory Coast striker Giovanni Sio heads the ball next to Rennes’ French Senegalese defender Cheik Mbengue. Bastia won the match, played in Rennes, 1-0
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