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This year’s Lagos Photo Festival in Nigeria brings together well-known photographers and their take on identity in Africa:
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Keyezua looks at fashion in her home country of Angola with this image, entitled Royal Generation, of a woman wearing fabric woven from raw materials.
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Lagos Photo Festival
A series of self portraits by Ghanaian photographer Eric Gyamfi explores African male sexuality against a backdrop of religion and tradition.
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Nigerian photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo considers tradition and modernity by combining traditional dress with fetish wear.
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Acceptance is the theme of Broken Things by South African photographer TSoku Maela, who says: “Self-love is not to instinctively conceal and impulsively improve on our flaws.”
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Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia imagines how retired businesswomen could look in a series called Nyanye – League of Extravagant Grannies.
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Benin-based Ishola Akpo photographs his own grandmother as part of a series that looks at the importance of bride prices in African culture.
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This photo is from a collection entitled Genesis by Kudzanai Chiurai, who focuses on political and social conditions in Zimbabwe by trying to understand the psyche of what it is like to be colonised.
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Adad Hannah’s work The Raft of the Medusa, re-imagines a 19th Century work by Theodore Gericault, of a colonial ship that was wrecked off the coast of Senegal more than 200 years ago.
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The Art of Survival by French photographer Patrick Willocq, who once lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, depicts what it is like to be a child refugee using storybook imagery.
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And Profit Corner is Mozambique photographer Mario Macilau’s take on the threat of electronic waste in Africa.
Photos courtesy of Lagos Photo Festival, which continues until 22 November 2016.
