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

Bob Jeffrey, the chief executive of the International Centre of Photography (ICP), says such is the “enduring power” of an ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by ...

There was no African literature as we know it today ... When people hear the word Africa, they have come to expect certain images to follow. If you see a good house in Lagos, Nigeria, it doesn ...

There is also space for literature to expand its ... s ‘Meditations on Greatness’ talk. While ‘images of success in the West do not reflect African writers,’ he also said that greatness ...

During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that ...

The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor conspiratorial factoid, especially amid the systematic dismantling of DEI ...

But the power of Southern African literature extends far beyond mere critique. It celebrates resilience, the unyielding human spirit that refuses to be cowed by oppression. Writers such as Malawi ...

Image source, Getty Images Image caption ... Ngũgĩ became known as one of the foremost advocates of literature written in African languages. Throughout his career - and to this day - African ...