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the price of

thestoryofkenyas

post-electionviolencethrough

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Award Winning Kenyan Photojournalist

BONIFACE WAS THE EYE of Kenyans during the post-election violence and

showed courage and compassion to capture the images across the country

that made newspaper headlines all over the world. To capture the moment,

he had to be on the frontline where everything was going down.

During the post-election skirmishes he took thousands of photos, some so

gory they couldnt be published. He covered the post-election violence at

a great personal risk and sacrifice, more so given the heavy-handedness

that the Kenyan police displayed at times.

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

documenting the plight of ordinary Kenyans caught up in the pre and post

election violence that rocked the country and see the story through.

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 theworld, 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.

www.pichamtaani.org

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