Fela Kuti’s drummer Tony Allen had enlisted him for the cover of his compilation “Lagos Shake” last Year, with a picture taken from his series “The Hyena and Other Men” .
In 2009, 33 years-old south-african photographer Pieter Hugo headed to Abuja, Nigeria to focus on what’s become the 2nd largest movie industry in the world releasing up to 2500 movies a year: Nollywood.
Ahead of Hollywood, and behind Bollywood, it produces movies on its own terms (worth over $2.3 billion as of 2008), telling stories that appeal to and reflect the lives of its public: it is a rare instance of self-representation on such a scale in Africa.
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Last September, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) released a book called “the 50th Law” where he (obviously) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of “The 48 Laws of Power” (which Kanye West and Young Buck have rapped about), to write a bible for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. We’ve already heard him talkin’ ’bout that matter in his album “Get Rich or Die Tryin”.
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Formed in January 2009, this trio is the among other ways to describe it, the new project of Portishead’s intrumentalist and producer Geoff Barrow. The story is coming up on The Drone next month!
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