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Suffering for their faith, covering hair and living simple lives all part of the Akurinu way

In the mid-1920s, Kenya had just been declared a colony as the effects of World War I began to bite. This came with the orders to carry kipande and forced labour.

The first generation of educated Kenyans were coming out of mission schools and now Africans could read and interpret the Bible from an African context.

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