Introduction

Travel around Kenya, and every Sunday morning you see never-ending trails of men, women and children making their way to church. Clad in long white robes with elegant white African head-cloths, or in Europeanstyle outfits, the churchgoers fill city streets and dusty rural tracks. They walk in groups, playing musical instruments and singing hymns, stopping from time to time to collect additional followers. Whether they congregate in huge Gothic churches or in small huts, under large trees or in open fields, in public gardens or on busy roundabouts, the believers always end up holding a prayer service.