Kenyan politician and activist Boniface Mwangi was crowned the winner of the global award by Schengen Peace Foundation and Luxembourg Peace Prize
The European based organization announced former Starehe MP aspirant Boniface Mwangi as the 2020 Outstanding Youth Peace Maker for his pre-eminent efforts and initiatives to promote peace.
However, Mwangi will have to wait untill the crowning day of May 28th, 2021. when the 2020 Luxembourg Peace Prize ceremony will take place as part of the 5th Annual Transatlantic Dialogue conference at the University of Luxembourg.
Boniface Mwangi is a founder of PAWA254 that allows all artists from Nairobi and within to meet and showcase their creativity.
Having experienced first hand brutality during the 2007 post election violence, he established Picha Mtaani agenda where he showcased several brutality photos touring various towns in Kenya
Top 7 Boniface Mwangi awards at the age of 36
- CNN Multichoice Africa Photojournalist of the Year Award
- Prince Claus Laureate.
- New African Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Africans of 2014
- 2016 senior TED Fellow.
- Time magazine’s Next Generation Leader 2015
- Kenya’s Top 40 under 40 men 2016.
- Top 100 Kenyans 2019 by Kenyans.co.ke
