Priya Ramrakha was a Kenyan photojournalist who worked in Africa and the U.S. during the 1950s and ’60s, covering the struggle for racial equality and political independence in Kenya and elsewhere. He died in 1968, killed by crossfire while covering the Biafran War in Nigeria. His archives were recently rediscovered in Nairobi.
Soldiers in training, Enugu, Biafra/Nigeria, ca. 1967.
Roundups in Nairobi.
Public protests, Nairobi, early 1950s
Bicycles in an African town. Date and location unknown.
Newspaperman, Nairobi, Kenya, ca. 1952.
[Photos © Priya Ramrakha]
Mick Hartley 
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