A documentary titled The Sound Man in which veteran Kenyan sound engineer Abdul Rahman Ramadhan recounts his extraordinary and often heartbreaking journalism career covering crisis zones throughout East Africa won the Best Documentary Award at the 2017 Kalasha International Film and TV Awards in Nairobi on December 9.
During two decades of work with the late acclaimed photojournalist and Camerapix founder Mohamed Amin and others, the 62-year old Ramadhan has experienced and recorded the sounds of genocide, war, revolution, anarchy and famine in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and Rwanda.
