Photo/Film — Christopher Clark

Mwimba Texas, a celebrated Congolese wrestler, in Kinshasa, DRC

Lubabalo Gibson, a young Xhosa jockey, on South Africa’s Wild Coast

Two women fishing at dawn on the Lopori River in Equateur Province, DRC

A bonobo wades through the water in Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary outside Kinshasa, DRC

The desert gradually reclaims the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia

Guy, a Congolese radio journalist, in the studio of Radio Mwana in Mbandaka, DRC

A Sardinian beach during the COVID-19 pandemic

Two refugee sapeurs, the Congolese equivalent of the dandy, walk through Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa

Young jockeys cross the finish line in a traditional horse race in South Africa’s Transkei region

Francisca Arreola, a Garifuna woman, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras

A kingfisher takes flight in Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Jerome Bokele, pictured at his home in Mbandaka, is the first and only Batwa pygmy politician in Equateur Province, DRC

Vathiswa Nodlayiya, a performance artist, rehearses in a backyard in the township of Langa, Cape Town, South Africa

Daniel Pacheco, an evangelical pastor, preaches in San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Artisanal fishermen pull in a pirogue in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo

EFF supporters at a pre-election rally in Soweto, Johannesburg

A cat in the hillside village of Labastide, France

Ernestine Simelane holds a picture of her daughter, Nokuthula, an anti-apartheid activist who disappeared in 1983

A moto taxi driver during the 2021 Ebola epidemic in N’zerekore, Guinea

Young boys fish on the Lopori River in the DRC

Josephine Kamara, a vaccinator during the 2021 Ebola epidemic in Guinea

Marius Djo, a WHO consultant, talking to a Guinean community about sexual abuse and exploitation