Fri, August 20, 2021, 12:38 AM

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

A band parades to celebrate the 61st independence anniversary of the Central African Republic at Camp Kasai in Bangui on Friday.

An alternate sort of drumming on Tuesday as the Rastafari Society of Kenya plants tree seedlings to honor the birthday of Jamaican dark strengthening extremist, Marcus Garvey.


Ghanaian boxer Samuel Takyi is "blinded by victory" as powder is sprinkled over him by his supporters on his return home from the Tokyo Olympics, where he won a bronze medal.


Egyptian self-educated ninja, Abdel Qader Ahmed, known as Abouda Ninja, holds a blade he made himself, at a field in northern Cairo, on Friday.


On Tuesday in Cameroon, artist Salatiel performs during a colourful opening ceremony at the draw for the 2022 African Cup of Nations (CAN) which will be hosted by the country.

A man attempts to help put out rapidly spreading fires in Morocco that have obliterated somewhere in the range of 200 hectares (500 sections of land) of woodland in the district of Chefchaouen in the north of the country.


Around the same time in Kenya inhabitants help put out a fire that consumed 12 homes in Bombolulu, Kibera, leaving occupants abandoned. The fire began from tangled electric wires providing capacity to various homes.


Tuesday help arrives from above as a Royal Moroccan Air Force plane douses the wildfire.



Monday, Senegal's plastic man Modou Fall, wearing an outfit made of plastic packs, strolls around the city to bring issues to light about plastic waste in Dakar.



Wednesday, the authority mascot of the Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup Russia 2021, a firebird named Zharishka, invites the Senegalese group during an instructional meeting.



...100year-old Hughes Van Ellis, who additionally endure the slaughter. Between May-June 1921, a bigger number of than 300 dark occupants were killed and many dark claimed organizations were annihilated by a white horde that plummeted on Greenwood, in the US city of Tulsa.



After two days, overcomer of the 1921 Tulsa race slaughter, 107-year-old Viola Ford Fetcher, holds a bouquet during a chapel gathering in Accra where she is chatting with her sibling...



And it's a war dance in Addis Ababa as artists perform on Friday during a farewell ceremony for Ethiopian military forces leaving to fight in Tigray.


In Zambia, supporters of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) dance to victory tunes after Hakainde Hichilema was declared winner of the presidential election on Monday