Nabongo Wanga: King who rules beyond the grave

Mose Wesonga shows a place where Wanga leaders are taken to communicate with their dead king for them to win elections. Decades after the death of Nabongo Wanga he is still living among his people. (PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/ STANDARD)

Decades after the death of Nabongo Wanga, founder of the Wanga clan in Kakamega County, he is still living among his people.

Clan members believe that Wanga, who died in the early 1800s, manifests himself through darkness and sometimes emerges in form of a huge harmless snake to offer warm greetings to his people.