Famous carved wooden effigies of Waga (Wakka) chiefs and warriors, now becoming rare as many have been stolen by art collectors, Konso, southern area, Ethiopia, Africa

Nigerian chiefs at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chief at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chief wearing jewel crown at tribal gathering cultural event at Port Harcourt in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chief at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chief at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerians at tribal gathering cultural event at Port Harcourt in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chiefs at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chief at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Nigerian chiefs at tribal gathering durbar cultural event at Maiduguri in Nigeria, West Africa

Local chief at cultural festival in Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa

Nigerian chiefs at Maiduguri Airport in Nigeria, West Africa

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas of the South African Navy posing alongside the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. CPO Malgas has been in charge of firing the canon since 1995. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Ghana village chief, bolgatanga

Massai headman in his typical house, Tanzania, East Africa

Mozogo Daouka, 98, chief of the village of Oudjilla with some of his 50 wives, near Mora, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa

Portrait of revolution leader Muammar al-Khadafi, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya

Mohammed El Malaoui checking the quality of the dried rhizomes of organically cultivated Irises (Iris germanica), which are stored on the roof of the mud house of Hassan Bouship, the chief of the village of Iwasoudane, for natural cosmetics in Europe, Ait Inzel Gebel Region, Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Africa

Residents of the village of Iwasoudanei checking the quality of the dried rhizomes of organically cultivated Irises (Iris germanica), which are stored on the roof of the mud house of Hassan Bouship, the chief of the village of Iwasoudane, for natural cosmetics in Europe, Ait Inzel Gebel Region, Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Africa

One of the 50 wives of Mogozo Daouka, 98, chief of the village of Oudjilla near Mora, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa

Wife of the local chief smokes a pipe