Assignment

DINI YA MUSAMBWA

INTRODUCTION

Dini ya musambwa is one of new religious movements .It was founded by Elijah wa nameme okhwa Mwasame .At Maeni village, Kimilili district ,Bungoma North.Musambwa ia a luhya word which according to Luhyas means , the spirit of a person.

FOUNDER

Elijah Masinde (also spelt Elija Masinde).He was born between 1910-1912 and died in 1987.Masinde was a Bukusu freedom fighter who was the founder of Dini ya Musambwa.

Mr. .Masinde, who regarded himself as a prophet, founded his fundamental sect in 1946 as a direct challenge to the authorities .He urged his followers to destroy their identity cards and not pay taxes .Spent much of his life in prison as a result of his activities.

HIS EARLY LIFE

He was born in Kimilili,Bungoma District.Masinde wa Nameme Okhwa Mwasame started as a footballer,who captained a football team from Kimilili.He also played for Kenyan national team in Gossage Cup (1) against Uganda in 1930.

By the early 1940s he had risen to the rank of a junior elder within his community in Kimilili area and became necessary increasingly anti –colonial. In 1944 he led a number of localized defiance campaign against the colonial authorities, was imprisoned many times as a result. At time was kept in Mathare mental hospital and in Lamu.

Elijah Masinde was an ardent opponent of colonial regimes in Kenya. He also opposed and condemned the post independence regimes of Kenyatta and Moi for betraying the African people because he accused Kenyatta of land grabbing, ethnicity, rampant corruption and other multi-practises.Of Moi he accused him of perpetuating what Kenyatta had initiated and introducing neo-exploitation of the fellow Africans. He died in 1987 at the age of 75 years. Mr. Masinde one of the last Luhya prophets founded Musambwa the anti-colonial in 1936.

THE FOLLOWERS OF DINI YA MUSAMBWA.

Elijah Masinde’s Dini ya Musambwa had his followers amongst the Bukusu and Tachoni.He later had converts among the...