How Mohamed Amin’s lens healed the world

In a career spanning four decades, Mohammed Amin covered almost every major news story on the continent and elsewhere

By PETER NGANGI NGULI

From the shores of Cape Town in South Africa, to the delta of River Nile in Egypt, the story of Africa is clearly told and retold. The story of its wonders, a chronicle of its wars, a cord of its finest hours and of its utter follies is told almost entirely by the work of one man. This is none other than Mohamed “Mo” Amin, described as one of the greatest photojournalists of all time. No one has ever caught Africa’s pain and passion more incisively than Amin, a Kenyan hero photographer and front-line cameraman extraordinaire.