Nigeria has confirmed its first case of coronavirus disease, seemingly brought from Italy. It's the first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa. The affected man is an Italian working in Lagos, who returned from Milan a few days ago. Officials are now trying to trace all the people he has had contact with since entering Nigeria, and warned against panic and rumors.

From 1988 to 1991, French photographer Daniel Laine photographed 70 African monarchs, “whose dynasties marked the history of Africa until the middle of the twentieth century.” With hundreds of monarchs to choose from, Laine focused on those who continued to “retain a traditional and spiritual authority that is difficult for the Western mind to comprehend.”