Also known as the “blue people”, Tuareg people perform the folkloric “Takuba Agar” dance in the Sahara Desert in Tamanrasset, Algeria on December 15, 2022. The dance which once symbolized the celebration of Tuaregs' victory in their fight for freedom against French colonialism, is now a part of their cultural heritage. Tuareg people, who also live in Morocco, Niger, Chad, Mali and Burkina Faso; is a large tribe settled in the Sahara Desert. (Photo by Fazil Abd Erahim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Members of the Baruch troupe perform during the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival known in Afrikaans as the “Tweede Nuwejaar” (Second New Year) in Cape Town, South Africa on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Shelley Christians/Reuters)





Junior Lambrechts has his face painted in preparation for the Cape Minstrel Carnival in Cape Town, South Africa on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Shelley Christians/Reuters)





A prawn fisherman walks into the Sine Saloum Delta ahead of a night of fishing in Simal on January 3, 2023. Prawn fishermen will spend up to three hours each night walking large distances across the delta, dragging a net to catch prawns. A good night they could get 5 to 6 kilograms of prawns and sell them at 8 US dollars a kilogram. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A Sudanese woman weaves palm leaves (al-Zaaf), a traditional skill of making baskets, food trays and other household items, in the village of Al-Saqqai, some 57km north of the capital Khartoum, on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





A Sudanese woman weaves palm leaves (al-Zaaf), a traditional skill of making baskets, food trays and other household items, in the village of Al-Saqqai, some 57km north of the capital Khartoum, on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





A Sudanese woman weaves palm leaves (al-Zaaf), a traditional skill of making baskets, food trays and other household items, in the village of Al-Saqqai, some 57km north of the capital Khartoum, on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly/AFP Photo)





A view dry and cracked soil as temperatures rise and water levels drop in Bou Heurtma Dam in Jendouba, Tunusia on January 04, 2023. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This photograph taken on January 6, 2023 shows a destroyed military vehicle in Rugari, after clashes between the Congolese army and M23 rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)





Members of the Shembe Church gather on top of Nhlangakazi Holy Mountain during the annual Nazareth Baptist Church, (Shembe Church) pilgrimage near Durban, South Africa, 07 January 2023. Once a year, 20,000 followers of the Shembe Church gather to walk 50km to their holly mountain to pray and enjoy the community of fellow Shembe worshipers. The founder of the church, Isaya Shembe, claimed to have had been approached by the Holy Spirit on top of Nhlangagazi more than 100 years ago and thus started the Shembe church. Seen as a mixture of Zulu tradition and Christianity, the church reveres the late Isaya Shembe as an African Messiah and emphasizes the Ten Commandments. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)





Young people participate in a volleyball skills camp held by local Namibian Afrocat Sports Academy in Windhoek, Namibia, on January 7, 2023. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





African National Congress (ANC) Party supporters react as the African National Congress party celebrate its 111th anniversary, at the Dr Molemela stadium, in Mangaung, South Africa, Sunday, January 8 2023. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marked its 111th anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Voodoo followers attend the voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin, on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Yanick Folly/AFP Photo)





Devotees perform as they take part in the annual celebration of Voodoo festival in Cotonou, Benin on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Charles Placide Tossou/Reuters)





Internally displaced people (IDP) carry charcoal from the forest at the foot of Nyiragongo volcano in Virunga National Park on January 13, 2023, to the market in Kibati. After the resurgence of the M23 rebellion north of Goma city, tens of thousands of people have crowded into makeshift camps in the Nyiragongo. They are struggling to find enough food for their families, so they turned to charcoal production. In less than two months, more than 200 hectares of trees were cut down. The forest of the Nyiragongo volcano will soon be nothing but stumps. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)





A man waves a Tunisian flag during a protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied in downtown Tunis, Tunisia, Saturday January 14, 2023. Tunisians mark 12 years since Tunisian protesters unleashed Arab Spring uprisings around the region. The protest comes after disastrous parliamentary elections last month in which just 11% of voters cast ballots. It also comes as the country is going through a major economic crisis, with inflation and joblessness on the rise. (Photo by Hassene Dridi/AP Photo)





Hostess pose for a picture at the Afrima, All Africa Music Awards, held at the Dakar Arena in Diamniadio, Senegal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





Muthaka from Kenya receives the best female artist from Eastern Africa at the Afrima, All Africa Music Awards at the Dakar Arena in Diamniadio, Senegal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





Maty Diop plays soccer outside her house, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Members of the media run for cover as police disperse protesters during a demonstration against the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 18, 2023. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo/AFP Photo)