Africa Rising At The Royal Albert Hall

Having travelled to Nigeria and Washington DC to cover the other Africa Rising music and fashion shows it was great to be able to photograph the event relatively calmly so close to home. As things turned out, this event was the best of the lot - the organizers obviously pulled out all stops for this show, which is run to portray the positive side of Africa.
Nigerian media mogul Nduka is the man behind the event and having got Jay Z, Rihanna and Naomi Campbell, amongst others, to take part in Nigeria he was able to secure Christina Aguilera and Seal to perform at the Royal Albert Hall.
The music and fashion shows were a lot of fun to photograph and I was especially pleased with my live Seal pictures. However, the all the acts were upstaged by Colin Powell being dragged up on stage to dance for 10 minutes (second from bottom photo).