Kisumu Peace Festival 2011

From 4th – 6th August 2011 Kisumu hosted its very first Peace Festival. The idea was to involve the whole city, to advertise peace in a big way, to organise an event which was going to be free for everybody.There had to be a way of how one could change the Kenyan people’s perception of Kisumu and break the vicious circle of “Unemployment – idleness – violence - investors leaving – more unemployment – etc.” Kisumu had to be portrayed nationwide as a peaceful city.