Since Independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007s stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 per cent Christian. Under the bland label Kenyan Christianity several different if overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these that Gifford investigates in this book, relating them to the countrys politics and public life.