Kano Photo Essay

Blog June 1, 2017

Lots to take in on "Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria." Here are some visuals from Kano, a serene, complicated city, Nigeria's second largest. Starting off with actor Mustafa "Musty" who, joined by filmmaker Salisu Almustapha, introduced Banning Eyre and Sean Barlow to a brilliant array of singers, producers, actors, agents and Kannywood executives, not to mention the Kano State Censorship Board. Well, stories elsewhere. Here, feast your eyes... Photos by Banning Eyre. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36819" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/MustyOnSet-1-768x1024.jpg" width="594" height="792"> Musty on set <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36803" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-20-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36857" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/ZooRoad2-1-1024x739.jpg" width="600" height="433"> Zoo Road <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36785" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-2-768x1024.jpg" width="600" height="801"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36787" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-4-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36788" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-5-1024x768.jpg" width="604" height="453"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36791" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-8-1024x762.jpg" width="602" height="448"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36783" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/JamilaA3-1-678x1024.jpg" width="600" height="907"> Jamila Ahmad, nanaye singer <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36784" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-1-1024x768.jpg" width="599" height="449"> Salisu recommends a film <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36768" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Dabino2-1-678x1024.jpg" width="601" height="908">  Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36804" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-21-1024x761.jpg" width="604" height="449"> Sean Barlow with manager of the Tahrir Guest Palace <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36790" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-7-1024x768.jpg" width="605" height="454"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36800" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-17-1024x768.jpg" width="601" height="451"> Musty as cameraman (he's good!) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36796" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-13-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Hausa traditional music CDs <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36748" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/ALiJita-1-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Nanaye producer and singer Ali Jita <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36747 " src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/AhmadMSadiq-1-678x1024.jpg" width="600" height="907"> Nanaye producer Ahmad M Sadiq <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36745 " src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/AffakelahBE-1-1024x768.jpg" width="601" height="451"> Ismail Na Abba Affakelah and Banning Eyre at the Kano State Censorship Board <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36746" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Affakellah-1-1024x678.jpg" width="600" height="397"> Ismail Na Abba Affakelah, former film producer and executive director of the Kano State Censorship Board <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-36751" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/AmdadMSadiq2-1-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Hand of producer Ahmad M Sadiq, at work <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36750" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/AmdadMSadiq1-1-944x1024.jpg" width="599" height="650"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36755" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Autotune-1-1024x768.jpg" width="603" height="452"> Engineer Ali G recording Maryam Sangandali <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36759" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/BillyOBE2-1-1024x768.jpg" width="601" height="451"> Banning and Billy O at Dala FM. (photo by Musty) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36777" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/HHH_gang-1-1024x580.jpg" width="600" height="340">  Hip Hop summit at Freedom Radio, February 2017 <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36770" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Dapo-1-1024x768.jpg" width="597" height="448"> Oumar Iba Issa, AKA Dabo da Prof <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36774" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/FreedomRadio-1-1024x768.jpg" width="609" height="457"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36814" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/MujahidHA-1-1024x987.jpg" width="601" height="579"> Mujahid Aliyu Usaman <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36821" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NasiruGarbaSupa-1-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Nasiru Garba Supa group <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36831" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NasiruGarbaSupa-11-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Sean interviewing Nasiru <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36828" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NasiruGarbaSupa-8-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450"> Sean dancing to Nasiru <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36829" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NasiruGarbaSupa-9-1024x768.jpg" width="597" height="448"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36817" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/MustyHassan-1-1024x768.jpg" width="599" height="449"> Mustafa "Musty" and Hassan Mohamad Sharif <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36845" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Shaaibu2-1-678x1024.jpg" width="600" height="907"> Shaaibu Lilisko, Kannywood choreographer <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36841" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/RabiuDalleBE-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="Nanaye producer/singer Rabiu Dalle and Banning Eyre" width="601" height="451"> Nanaye producer/singer Rabiu Dalle and Banning Eyre <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36849" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Twins3-1-768x1024.jpg" width="601" height="802"> Tagwayan Asali, Hausa hip-hop duo, and identical twins <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36846" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Twins-1-1024x678.jpg" width="602" height="399"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36838" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NomiisGee-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="Nomiis Gee at Arewa 24 in Kano (Eyre, 2017)" width="600" height="450"> Nomiis Gee at Arewa 24 in Kano (Eyre, 2017) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36837" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NomiisGee_portrait2-1-678x1024.jpg" alt="Nomiis Gee at Arewa 24 in Kano (Eyre, 2017)" width="605" height="913"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36835" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NazirMAhmad-1-1024x908.jpg" alt="Nazir M Ahmed and Banning Eyre" width="603" height="534"> Nazir M Ahmed and Banning Eyre <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-36853" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/YAKS-1-768x1024.jpg" alt="Producer/singer Yakubu Adamu Abdullahi " width="599" height="799"> Producer/singer Yakubu Adamu Abdullahi (YAKS) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-36810" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/M-Zee-1-1024x678.jpg" alt="Hausa hip-hop artist, M Zee" width="640" height="424"> Hausa hip-hop artist, M Zee <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36833" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/NasiruGarbaSupa-13-1024x768.jpg" width="607" height="455"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36799" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/KANO_2017-16-768x1024.jpg" width="603" height="805"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36852" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/Ultra_Pure_Banning-1-944x1024.jpg" width="603" height="655"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-36856" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2017/05/ZOO-Road-1-1024x768.jpg" width="600" height="450">