Contortionists perform during a slum party in Oworonshoki district of Lagos, Nigeria, 24 September, 2024. The slum party is a yearly artistic dance festival initiated by Ennovate Dance House. It highlights the positive sides of the slum community and brings hope to the inhabitants. (Photo by Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA/EFE)





A fire breather performs during a slum party in Oworonshoki district of Lagos, Nigeria, 24 September, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA/EFE)





People watch a soccer game between two teams from the neighborhood in Toubab Dialaw on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Girls watch from afar a soccer game between two teams from the neighborhood in Toubab Dialaw on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Mourners react as they attend a memorial service for the pupils who died after a fatal fire at the Hillside Endarasha Academy within Kieni in Nyeri County, Kenya on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





Coffins are arranged before a memorial service for the pupils who died after a fatal fire at the Hillside Endarasha Academy within Kieni in Nyeri County, Kenya on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A professional artist performs during “Slum Party” a dance festival in the Oworoshoki district on mainland Lagos, Nigeria on September 29, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Fisherwoman throw a net close to a stranded old vessel off Tarkwa Bay in Lagos on September 28, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





This aerial wiew shows a portion of the waste clogged lagoon along a slum in the Oworoshoki district in mainland Lagos on September 29, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Women grieve at the port of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, after a ferry carrying hundreds capsized on arrival Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo)





A woman prepares her stall, with election posters in the background, ahead of the presidential elections, in the suburb of Katembe, Maputo, Mozambique on October 7, 2024. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko./Reuters)





Supporters of Tunisian president and candidate for re-election Kais Saied celebrate after the announcement of the provisional results for the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, October 6, 2024. (Photo by Anis Mili/AP Photo)





A man navigates a pirogue between the houses of the Tougoude district, in the south-east of Ndjamena's ninth arrondissement, flooded by the Logone River, on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Joris Bolomey/AFP Photo)





A voter marks her ballot in a voting booth at a polling station in Munhava in Beira on October 9, 2024 before polls open in Mozambique's national election. (Photo by Zinyange Aunton/AFP Photo)





Twins look on as they attend the Igboora World Twins Festival 2024, in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A woman poses with her twins before the Igboora World Twins Festival 2024, in Igbo-Ora on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Twins look on as they attend the Igboora World Twins Festival 2024, in Igbo-Ora on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





A woman reacts as she poses with twins during the Igboora World Twins Festival 2024, in Igbo-Ora on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Men sits next to a poster of Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician and political activist who is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, at the entrance of the New Afrika Shrine during the Felabration week in the district of Ikeja in Lagos on October 14, 2024. Every year Lagos celebrates the musical legacy of Fela Kuti with a week of concerts at the legendary New Afrika Shrine in the working-class district of Ikeja. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Chacma baboons feed as juveniles play on a vehicle during a raid on refuse bins by a troop of Chacma baboons foraging in the residential neighborhood of Capri in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)