A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.

South African diver Jerry Ntombela, dressed as Santa Claus, feeds fish at the uShaka Marine World in Durban on Thursday.

The festive spirit also descended on Lagos, Nigeria, with Santa Clauses on scooters decorating a roundabout at Victoria Island on Monday.

A street vendor wearing a plastic Santa Claus mask peddles Christmas merchandise to motorists in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday.

A man from the Maasai ethnic group hurls a wooden club during a sporting event at Kimana, near Kenya's border with Tanzania on Saturday.

Hundreds of young men representing four villages competed in six games to win medals, cash prizes or a breeding bull.

And as the so-called Maasai Olympics draw to a close, a man uses his phone after dark.

South Africa's Tamaryn Green holds hands with Catriona Gray of the Philippines while waiting on Monday for the announcement of the winner of the 2018 Miss Universe Pageant in Bangkok.

An opposition supporter in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa reacts after police fire tear gas on Wednesday.

On the same day, opposition supporters ride motorcycles around Kinshasa. Sunday's elections in the troubled nation have been postponed by a week.

On Saturday, delegates of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF salute President Emmerson Mnangagwa as he is about to speak at the party's 17th conference.

On the same day in Egypt, an overseer of diggers walks into a newly discovered tomb of the high priest Wahtye, who served during King Neferirkare's reign between 2500-2300 BC.

And a woman enjoys a quiet moment of prayer on Monday at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Antananarivo, Madagascar.