A selection of photos from Africa and about Africans this week:
Nigerian special effects artist Abioye Balogun is in her studio in Lagos on Friday getting props ready for a Halloween film project.
On Wednesday, South African police in the capital, Pretoria, use tear gas against anti-corruption protesters and one responds with a fire extinguisher.
The demonstrators are also calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down. One man decides to wear a Zuma mask.
Corruption is also the theme of a protest in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday and these activists dress up as prisoners and call for corrupt officials to be jailed.
On Wednesday, Liberian coffin maker Essau Thalley puts the finishing touches to one of his creations at his workshop in the capital, Monrovia.
On Sunday, voters in Ivory Coast can vote either Yes or No in a referendum on a new constitution. Yes goes onto win, but the opposition boycotts the poll.
Exhausted migrants who managed to clamber over the border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday take a rest.
The bike race around Burkina Faso, known as the Tour du Faso, gets under way on Friday as cyclists race the 140km (87 miles) to Koupela from the capital, Ouagadougou.
On Sunday in Australia, Malawi's Tandie Galetta competes for the ball at an international netball tournament. Malawi beat England 35-32 to take the bronze medal.
Two of the 11 luxury vehicles belonging to Teodorin Obiang Nguema, son of Equatorial Guinea's president, confiscated by the Swiss authorities in a corruption investigation, are towed away in Geneva on Thursday.
Matabello Fokotsane tends her vegetable garden on Wednesday with her grandchild Reatile near Lesotho's capital, Masero. The country is currently battling the impact of a drought.
On Sunday, worshippers come together at the Coptic Cathedral in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the anniversary of the crash of a Russian plane shortly after taking off from the city, killing 224 people.
Two fishermen try their luck at the end of Wednesday at a beach in Morocco's capital, Rabat.
Images courtesy of AP, AFP, EPA and Reuters
