Robert Lebeck and Rolf Gillhausen documented, on assignment for German magazines such as Kristall or Stern, the phase of decolonisation in various African countries. The accompanying social change was also captured by Malick Sidibé in numerous portraits of the self-confident youth of the Malian capital Bamako in the first decade after independence. And the photographs of the young South African Pieter Hugo address the consequences of the profound transformation of the continent through the long colonial period, and the global power politics of the present.