Stripes and shades: Africa’s top shots

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:

A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday.

Four-year-old Maëlis Kouakou dresses up for Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

The children's parade gets going at the Luanda Carnival in Angola on Saturday…

The theme for this year's carnival is 50 years of Angolan independence.

On Tuesday, people of African descent get ready for the Carnival of Coyolillo in Mexico. Their dances are described as being similar to others found in Mozambique, Mali and Zambia.

On the same day in Ibadan, Nigeria, art historian and designer Olushola Olajobi shows some of his pieces made from waste products.

The next day in Lagos, fashion designer Florentina Agu displays some of her creations.

Days earlier in the same city, Omobolaji Oyeleye, who runs a private security company, stands at the gates at one of her work sites in the upmarket Ikoyi suburb.

On Monday, motorcycle taxi drivers in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, protest against the new ban on all motorcycle transport in the city.

Namibians pay their respects to the country's first president, Sam Nujoma, before his burial on Saturday.

On the same day, a well-wisher draped in the Congolese flag prays for the health of Pope Francis in the Italian capital, Rome.

In Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Catholic worshippers mark Ash Wednesday.

A woman joins evening prayers in South Africa's Gauteng province on Sunday, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

That evening after sundown at Senegal's famous Massalikoul Djinane mosque, Muslims break their fast at the first iftar dinner of Ramadan.

At sunrise on Thursday, canoeists glide across the Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg, South Africa.

And at The Gambia's Bijilo Forest Park on Wednesday, a curious red colobus monkey peers at the camera.

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