Clash of cultures and bumpy march of Christianity in East Africa

Author Macgoye Marjoree came to Kenya as a missionary. [PHOTO: FILE STANDARD]

NAIROBI: The annual Easter weekend, just like Christmas and other Christian holidays, are immensely popular worldwide. In Kenya the days are constitutional national holidays celebrated with a lot of fanfare it is hard to believe that, while Christianity is more than 2016 years old, in Kenya the religion is less than 200 years old.

And as Kenyans massacre goats and chickens while others travel upcountry to celebrate the resurrection of Christ – which forms the basis of Christian salvation - perhaps not many realise the faith was ushered into the country against a wall or cultural and political resistance that would later shape the historical and literary future of the country.