In pictures: Lagos photo festival on African identity

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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.

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.

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

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