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A Malian woman in a traditional robe and head wrap walks through Timbuktu. Photo by <n>Michel Renaudeau</n>.

Dakar, Senegal, 1998. From the book <n>The Art of African Fashion</n>, courtesy of <n>Hudita Nura Mustafa</n>.

An AI tribute by <n>sharq.afrik</n> to <n>Zakia Abul Gassim Abu Bakr</n>, Sudan's first known woman guitarist.

<n>Mmon Mmon Edet Ubok</n>, a 1970 photograph by <n>J.D. Okhai Ojeikere</n>.

Decorated mud houses of the <n>Kassena people</n> in Tiébélé, Burkina Faso. Photo by <n>Margaret Courtney-Clarke</n>.