This year's Lagos Photo Festival in Nigeria brings together well-known photographers and their take on identity in Africa:

"Royal Generation" show a woman in traditionally woven fabric by Angolan-born artist Keyezua

Keyezua looks at fashion in her home country of Angola with this image, entitled Royal Generation, of a woman wearing fabric woven from raw materials. A photo from a series entitled Asylum by Eric Gyamfi from Ghana showing a man with sheers approaching a young boy in a pot

A series of self portraits by Ghanaian photographer Eric Gyamfi explores African male sexuality against a backdrop of religion and tradition

A photo by Nigerian photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo showing a man and a woman in traditional dress with rubber fetish wear.

Nigerian photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo considers tradition and modernity by combining traditional dresswith fetish wear.

A photograph by TSoku Maela showing a man with a bandaged face and a women with a glazed eye - both smartly dressed

Acceptance is the theme of Broken Things by South African photographer TSoku Maela, who says: "Self-love is not to instinctively conceal and impulsively improve on our flaws."

A woman with grey hair dressed as a businessman with tie, jacket, cigar and brief case - standing by a plane - in a work by photographer Osborne Macharia

Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia imagines how retired businesswomen could look in a series called Nyanye - League of Extravagant Grannies

A photograph of Benin-based Ishola Akpo's grandmother

Benin-based Ishola Akpo photographs his own grandmother as part of a series that looks at the importance of bride prices in African culture

A photo by Zimbabwe's Kudzanai Chiurai showing an imagined scene from colonial times - an explorer reading from a book as an African woman listens, seated in a chair in front of a table on which sits a silver tea service

The Raft of the Medusa showing a shipwreck

This photo is from a collection entitled Genesis by Kudzanai Chiurai, who focuses on political and social conditions in Zimbabwe by trying to understand the psyche of what it is like to be colonised.

A photograph showing children trekking through hills under a starlit sky depicted as if in a children's story book by Patrick Willocq

The Art of Survival by French photographer Patrick Willocq, who once lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, depicts what it is like to be a child refugee using storybook imagery.

A man looking through a television screen at a rubbish dump in Mozambique - a photograph by Mario Macilau

And Profit Corner is Mozambique photographer Mario Macilau's take on the threat of electronic waste in Africa.

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