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23:12, 04-Aug-2017
Photographer-activist running in Kenya elections
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Ten years after covering election violence that left more than 1,000 of his countrymen dead, former photojournalist Boniface Mwangi is running for parliament in Kenya.
After the volatile 2007 Kenyan elections, Mwangi became a political activist to fight what he says was a corrupt political system.
Instead, he has now decided to try to join the system and fight corruption and political oppression from within, by standing for election in one of Nairobi's most impoverished neighborhoods, Starehe.
Mwangi has opted to start his own political party called the Ukweli Party, or "Truth Party". "I am not leaving activism, I am going to parliament as an activist,” he said.
Traditionally, Kenyans vote according to tribal alliances and newcomers on the political scene struggle to break through.