Spotlight: Priya Ramrakha, a profile by the NY Times

“Priya Ramrakha was killed 41 years ago on a roadside while covering the Nigerian Civil War for Time-Life.

This Kenyan photojournalist was among the first African contract photographers for arguably the world’s most famous picture magazine. He chronicled the rapid decline of the independence movements in Zanzibar, Congo, Rhodesia, South Africa, Aden and Nigeria in beautiful, haunting and humanizing images.

“For decades, Africa had been portrayed through the colonial lens by Western photojournalists,” said Shravan Vidyarthi, a relative of Priya’s who produced a documentary on his life. “Priya became one of the first photographers to document Africa — its people and its politics — from an African perspective.”

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