Early this month legendary photojournalist Mohinder Dhillon died in Nairobi, at the respectable age of 88. Dhillon, was nicknamed while “Death wish Dhillon” by British troops in Yemen for his daring exploits, while covering the war there In 1967.
He photographed every big story of the last half of the 20th century in East and Central Africa; the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and a slew of other hairy stories he richly writes of in his autobiography My Life, My Camera: the 1963-65 Simba Rebellion in today’s Democratic Republic Congo; the rise and fall of our friend Field Marshal Idi Amin in Uganda; to the end of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia and ascendancies of comrade Robert Mugabe to the throne in Zimbabwe.
