The notorious Cameroonian prison with its own record label
Last month it won three prizes, including best documentary feature, at New York's Tribeca film festival.In the film, a prisoner named Stone raps into the studio's microphone: "Heart of stone, it's war. My senses shatter like broken glass."I'm closed and tight like a cell door. He insists he is not guilty.The film captures him trying - often unsuccessfully - to reach his young daughter Maira on the phone."It's been a long time.
- ▪Last month it won three prizes, including best documentary feature, at New York's Tribeca film festival.In the film, a prisoner named Stone raps into the studio's microphone: "Heart of stone, it's war.
- ▪My senses shatter like broken glass."I'm closed and tight like a cell door.
- ▪He insists he is not guilty.The film captures him trying - often unsuccessfully - to reach his young daughter Maira on the phone."It's been a long time.
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The notorious Cameroonian prison with its own record labelImage source, Artists EquityImage caption, Empereur is one af the prison's most successful artists - the music video for his song Sa Ngando has been viewed 24,000 times on YouTubeByWedaeli Chibelushi and Tom Brook, Talking MoviesPublished7 minutes agoNew Bell - a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon - is a city within a city.The facility has its own "taxis" (inmates who whizz through congested courtyards on foot to hand deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help stretched guards police the facility) and market (a string of stalls where convicts sell and buy goodies, like fried cassava and beignet pastries).Basically, the occupants of New Bell have adapted the jail's slack laws to work for them.
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