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Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Title: Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8

Photographer(s): Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi

Writer(s): Billy Kahora, Joy Mboya, Judy Wanjiku Ogana

Designer(s): Naveed Awan

Publisher(s): The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust, Nairobi, Kenya

Year: 2009

Print run:

Language(s): English, Swahili

Pages: 156

Size: 21 x 26 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print: Al Ghurair Printing, Nairobi, Kenya

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Kenia, 2007

ISBN: 978-9966718211

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

Kenya Burning – Mgogoro Baada ya Uchaguzi 2007/8 is a photo book by photographers Yasuyoshi Chiba, Boniface Mwangi, on Kenya election protests in 2007, published by, The GoDown Arts Center and Kwani Trust,Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

The unprecedented violence, coming in the wake of the Kenya Election December 2007, left all the people deeply disturbed. Most of the Kenyans had a perplexing sense of impotence about how to respond to the post-election mayhem in a -meaningful way-.

The photo that the two photographer, Yasuyoshi Chiba and Boniface Mwangi, show us are dramatic, horrific and real and we are struk by the power of the camera to capture scenes and moments of the unbridled emotions expressed by Kenyans during that period.

The only real answer one can try to give is - May it never happen again.

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