According to some web sites or forwarded emails, these are pictures of...


...a band of Nigerian criminals or street gang members
(as is apparently very evident by the arm bands)...


...cruizing the 'hood with their hyaenas.


Others still describe them as vicious debt collectors...

 
...while, in reality, they're merely a group of travelling minstrels or
"entertainers from Nigeria, who travel across the country" with "their
entourage of animals: three hyenas, two pythons and four monkeys."

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[Original images and myths collected on the web and via email] 
[Facts and figures courtesy of www.pieterhugo.com and elsewhere]