Boniface Mwangi ✓ Verified

Experience

Professional

• Parliamentary Candidate, Starehe Constituency (Ukweli Party)

  Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission 2016-2017

  Contested Nairobi's Starehe parliamentary seat in 2017 on the Ukweli Party ticket, running a crowd-funded grassroots campaign that finished third yet marked his shift from protest activism to electoral politics.

• Founder, PAWA254

  PAWA254 2010, present

  Founded PAWA254, the Nairobi creative-activism hub where photographers, artists and organizers collaborate on civic campaigns; it incubated protest art and documentary projects across the 2013 and 2017 election cycles.

• Photojournalist

  The Standard Group

  Staff photographer whose unflinching images of the 2007-08 post-election violence became defining records of the crisis and twice won him the CNN Multichoice Africa Photojournalist of the Year award before he left news for activism.

• Founder

  Courage Movement

  Civic movement he founded to organize young Kenyans around accountability, documentation of police brutality and voter mobilization, turning his street-protest activism into a structured national outfit.

Education

• Diploma in Bible Studies

  The Kingdom Academy

  Theological study at a Nairobi bible college in his youth, taken during years of hardship in which he sold books on the street; he credits the period with the discipline that later carried him into journalism training.

• Diploma in Print Journalism

  East African School of Journalism

  Journalism training at the East African School of Journalism that took him straight into newsroom photography, where his images of Kenyan politics were soon running on front pages and international wire services.

• Human Rights and Documentary Photography (non-degree program)

  New York University

  Selected for a human rights and documentary photography programme at New York University after his post-election violence archive drew global attention; the fellowship shaped the activist turn his work took back home.

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), private candidate

  Private candidate

  Sat the national secondary examination as an adult private candidate, completing formal schooling that poverty had interrupted in his teens and publicly making the point that education can be reclaimed at any age.

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