During and after the 2007 elections in Kenya, around 1,100 people were killed and 600,000 displaced when political and tribal groups attacked their opponents' supporters and anyone else in their way. The International Criminal Court is now investigating four politicians - two from each of the leading parties - for inciting what is locally known as "the Violence." Photographer Boniface Mwangi, 29, captured the violence, but his anger and frustration at what he saw evolved into political activism. In 2009 he founded Picha Mtaani, a traveling photo exhibition of the riots and killings (...)
[Read Mike Elkin's conversation with Boniface Mwangi on Warscapes]