Career
After his education at the Art Center College of Los Angeles (arranged by Eliot Elisofon), 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 Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent Morley Safer, he was killed in an ambush near Owerri by Biafran soldiers.
An independent documentary film about Ramrakha is in production.
