The Hyena men aka Gadawan Kura

After Pieter Hugo saw a Nigerian newspaper with a picture in it, 
taken out of a cellphone showing a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains,
and the caption "the streets of Lagos" with the report that the men were bank robbers, bodyguards , drug dealers and dept collectors , he got in contact with a niderian reporter wich said he knew the " Gadawan Kura" . They went to Abuja to meet this by myths surrounded group that was living on the periphery of the city in a shantytown.
A group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and a few rock pythons.It turned out that they were a group of itinerant minstrels , performers who used  the animals to entertain crowds and sell traditionell medicines.They were all realted to each other and practising a tradition passed down from generation to generation.