How Maina Njenga Turned Mungiki into Kenya's Most Dreaded Terror Group
Channel: News & Books
Date: 2023-11-03

Mungiki is a banned ethnic organisation in Kenya. The gang consists mainly of youths from Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, and began as a hardline offshoot of the Tent of the Living God, a religious sect that espoused a return to traditional tribal beliefs and a rejection of Western values.  The word Mungiki means “multitude” in the Kikuyu language.