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Congratulations Mr. Benson Ngobia on his appointment as the New Director of the Kenya International Theatre Festival

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KCA University congratulates Mr. Benson Ngobia on his appointment as the new Director of the Kenya International Theatre Festival and Chairperson of the Kenya Theatre Awards.
Mr. Ngobia is a faculty member at the School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Performing Arts, Film & Media Studies, KCA University. He has been instrumental in linking academia with industry, notably spearheading collaborations between Canon, Netflix amongst others to promote arts education in the country.
KCAU is a premier business, technology and creative university of choice and welcomes the industry’s recognition of it’s highly qualified and skilled personnel to serve the nation in various capacities.

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