Priya Ramrakha

Who was Priya Ramrakha?

Priya Ramrakha was a Kenyan photojournalist of Indian background and one of the first Africans to be given a contract by LIFE and TIME magazines. After his education at the Art Center College of Los Angeles, Ramrakha began work at LIFE. In 1963, Ramrakha returned to Africa to cover the independence movement in his native Kenya as one of East Africa's first indigenous photojournalists. Ramrakha went on to cover political and military movements across Africa. In 1968, while covering the Nigerian Civil War with CBS correspondent Morley Safer, he was killed in an ambush near Owerri by Biafran soldiers.

An independent documentary film about Ramrakha is currently in production.