Abstract:
Mungiki is a African traditional religion that emerged in 1987 in Kenya, among the Gikuyu or Kikuyu, the Kenyan largest tribe, they have their traditional god called 'Ngai.' whom they worship and to whom they pray for, Mungiki are with the aims of educating the Kenyan masses to fight against westernization, which they claim was introduced by Christianity and colonization, this will be done through conversion to Gikuyu culture and religion. Christianity has been accused of influencing Gikuyu people to abandon their traditional religion, which annoyed their god, Ngai. The consequences of abandoning African culture and religion, which, according to the group, has been the current cause of the Kenyan calamities which are; injustice, corruptions and bad governance, manifesting in characters of the Kenyan Government officials, Mungiki advocates that all ethnic groups in Kenya should therefore denounce foreign faiths, especially Christianity, and revert to traditional beliefs and practices. According to Mungiki conversion from African traditional religion to another foreign religion is not allowed. The aims of this paper is to interrogate why Mungiki group has contradicted themselves by converting from African traditional religion to Islam, from Islam to Christianity in Kenya an ideology they have earlier rejected and criticized.
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