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the price of
the story of kenya’s
post-election violence through
the lens of a photojournalist
boniface mwangi

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boniface
mwangi
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Award Winning Kenyan Photojournalist
BONIFACE WAS THE EYE of Kenyans during the post-election violence and
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showed courage and compassion to capture the images across the country
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he had to be on the frontline where everything was going down.
are During the post-election skirmishes he took thousands of photos, some so
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way without prior that the Kenyan police displayed at times.
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written notice. His coverage of those attacks entailed great danger as, more often than
not, he had to falsify his ethnic identity. He had to show courage in
© boniface mwangi 2010 documenting the plight of ordinary Kenyans caught up in the pre and post
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He has worked on assignments in Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, China, Somalia,
Tanzania, Ghana, South Africa, France and he covered the election of
President Barack Obama in the USA. His work has been exhibited at the
French Cultural Centre Nairobi, Goethe Institute, the national Museums of
Kenya, The Godown Art Centre and New York at the Tank Art Studio.
His work has appeared in virtually all the important newspapers in the
world, from The New York Times to The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, The international Herald Tribune, The Sunday Times, The
Telegraph, The Boston Globe and the BBC Focus on Africa magazine among
other International publications. He is the first Kenyan to be named the
CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year in 2008. In 2009 his post election
work was highly commended in the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year
Award. He went on to win the Award in 2010.
"Your photography is absolutely stunning and tells an important and
powerful story for the world to hear," said Hillary Clinton, the US
Secretary of State in a 2009 letter she wrote to Boniface Mwangi
commending his Post election violence work.
Currently he is the project director of Picha Mtaani, a UN-funded
initiative that focuses on reconciliation through photographic
exhibitions and debate.