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MU to host international peacebuilder for public lecture

North Manchester, IN (02/10/2025) — Manchester University will welcome Kenyan peacebuilder and storyteller Dr. Babu Ayindo for a presentation on Monday, Feb. 17.

This program will take place at 11 a.m. in Wine Recital Hall at the North Manchester campus. It is free and open to the public.

In his youth, Ayindo served as artistic director of a community theatre ensemble, Chelepe Arts, in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1994, he co-founded Amani People's Theatre which drew from African Indigenous arts and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed to advance a "poetics of peace and justice" through participatory, dialogical and emancipatory art forms. He now works as a teacher, storyteller, researcher and facilitator of peace processes across the world, including teaching arts-based approaches to peacebuilding courses in Africa, Asia, North America and Oceania.

His presentation, "Arts, Peacebuilding and Decolonization," will focus on the importance of the arts in conflict and trauma transformation.

This program is sponsored by the Refior Peace Lectureship and the Long Memorial Lecture Funds.

For the media

Contact Katy Gray Brown, professor of peace studies and philosophy, at klgraybrown@manchester.edu.

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