Here are some of the top images from the African continent and beyond this week:
The EPA A man wearing blue, red, and white face paint beams widely during Cape Town’s Tweede Nuwe Jaar celebration. On Saturday, revelers pour into Cape Town’s streets for Tweede Nuwe Jaar, also known as the Second New Year, a colorful yearly celebration with roots in the city’s slave past in South Africa.
The EPA At the Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival, five individuals dressed in white and green outfits perform songs from the 1800s while strumming banjos and acting as minstrels.
Reuters/Esa Alexander At the Tweede Nuwe Jaar event on Saturday, April 4, a man with a complex headpiece and a white, red, and blue costume stands in a split stance with his tongue protruding.
