Kikuyu Traditionalists Destroy Alleged LGBTQ Flag Hoisted Atop Mt Kenya in 2019
A group of Kikuyu traditionalists has destroyed a flag that was hoisted at the peak of Mount Kenya four years ago, claiming it represents the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The group dubbed Booi wa Kirira Kia Mugikuyu raised funds for about a month to facilitate their journey atop the mountain to remove the flag that was placed there in 2019.
On Friday, a team of 10 climbers went up the mountain and returned on Sunday carrying the flag, which was later set on fire in Naromoru, Nyeri County.
The event was followed up by cleansing rites by Kikuyu elders before the ashes from the burned flag were thrown into the river that flows to the Indian Ocean.
The group claimed the hoisting of the alleged LGBTQ flag on the top of Mt Kenya desecrated Kikuyu’s holiest shrine.
"It is an affront to Gikuyu spirituality, for members of this community to desecrate our Supreme Altar by raising their flag on Kīrīnyaga (Mt Kenya)," said Kimani Charagu, a founding member of Booi wa Kirira.
"We were determined to bring the flag down and thereafter perform cleansing rites by our sages."
Murugu wa Kimari, who is the treasurer of Booi wa Kirira, said: "Our people should pause and ask themselves why all these bad things are occurring in the community, including unexplained killings almost on a daily basis.”
"This is a clear indication that Mwenenyaga is not happy with us,” he added.
Comments (9)
It is not hypocritical to see traditionalists not dressed in 'traditional attire'? Or are the moderate traditionalists?
Destroying aflag will nor cleansing would restore traditional values.For that to happen,they need to ask questions... Besides that how sure are they that the flag they destroyed belongs to LGBTQ crowd...Any pictures?
This is very important to the Gikuyu community.
Separation is at hand; globalization is coming to an end.
Every person will embrace what they believe in. Let no one spread their beliefs to others.
Every person and every community will now defend who they are. Every community must stand high and affirm their beliefs.
@ Maxiley, traditionist is more than a dress. It is a principle part of the soul and cannot be displayed for the physical world. It is spiritual.
Keep your beliefs and stand by them. The traditionist will stick to their beliefs and stand by them. There is an unseen war of two forces and soon we will see the results.
Keep watching this space
Iam sure you are smart enought to know that I did not suggest that dress is the whole sum of tradition.But surely you agree that its part of tradition.Infact its easier to identify dress that the spirit...
These gikuyu elders are always dressed like the white man. The Kikuyu in bygone days did not have traditional or ceremonial attire like their counterparts in west africa and south africa and central afrika and north africa
It cann't be that they always dressed like the white man.Before the white man "gave them his dress",what didthey wear?I would call that traditional. Do you know what that was? Unless they did not wear anything... save for a patch of leopard skin to protect the' sperm dispenser'?
GREAT!
4 years later is when they are acting on the flag?.Why now? I wonder if they are just jumping on the antigay bandwagon that is going on in Kenya, spear headed by Kaluma?
Great! Ushoga, back to the sender, the West.