Priya Ramrakha was a Kenya

Kenya

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n photojournalist of Indian background and one of the first Africans to be given a contract by LIFE

Life

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and TIME

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magazines. After his education at the Art Center College of Los Angeles

Art Center College of Design

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 (arranged by Eliot Elisofon

Eliot Elisofon

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), 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

Nigerian Civil War

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 with CBS

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 correspondent Morley Safer

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, he was killed in an ambush near Owerri

Owerri

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 by Biafra

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n soldiers.

An independent documentary film about Ramrakha is currently in production.