@kaigangio, much respect. You know your stuff. Where I differ with you us when you call it a renaissance. It's not. It's just a popular trend amongst Kikuyu men of our generation. The fact that all senior politicians endorsed it as joined the kiamas could actually be the key factor driving their popularity.

I have been under immense pressure from my friends here in Nairobi to join. Some of my friends hold leadership positions in their "mwaki". Back in the village, folks can't understand why I am yet o join. Truth is,I have never found a compelling reason to join. And now the PCEA church has come to my rescue. All I have to say is that my church is against it.

And its true, the church has been struggling to get men into church. But their women are neck-deep in church matters.

PCEA has linkage with that fraternity. They have never disowned it

ancestor in American. (ˈænˌsɛstər ; anˈsesˌtər; also, ˈænsəstər ; anˈsəstər; ˈænsɪstər ; anˈsistər) any person from whom one is descended, esp. one earlier in a family line than a grandparent

Sasa what's more important than where you descended from? it's a sure thing,not a myth as @masukuma puts it, to me it's worth a goat now and then.

Not just PCEA. Most mainstream Church Cathedrals were built by the Guild of the free Masons. That is how practically every Free Mason lodge came to be located near a Church. It was a shelter for 'watu was mjengo'

Officially on their websites and openly a bunch/brotherhood of "esoteric" (magic rituals) practitioners under worshipful masters. They built most Churches in Kenya like Anglican, PCEA in Kenya and supplied with with dogma, hymn books, structure and funds to establish and support their esoteric ideologies, several "high level" church officials are freemasons. There are about four huge branches, Grand lodge of england, website www.ugle.org.uk who are in charge of the nyerere road goons (http://www.dgleastafrica.org/), which is mostly wahindis and wazungus, attended their dinner once as a guest at KICC in the 90's, the USA the has Southern and Northern Districts which are two and three, then there are "princehall" as number four aka African masufferer freemasons also called boule, (the pointi children of these wazungus), they are also called "irregular" in the states and by some others, Freenasons more or less own the US, e.g Georgia. They were in trouble in the Kenyan court system for colluding to write judgement, one Judge AB Shah, was making all his ruling to favor them and was sacked from bench, they almost own the law in Kenya, the also fund several politicians campaigns.