December, 2023
Lwayo Lwa Mulungu (Godʼs Footprint) | Location: Kwale
For thousands of years human beings across many civilizations have tried to work out how God looks like. A small village in Kwale County claims to have a partial answer-God visited and left behind his footprints on a rock. Lwayo LwaMulungu, which translates to the footprint of God is located 5 Kilometeres from Lunga Lunga town. There are two footprints are each 18 inches long. The Duruma,who are the native people of the area say the footprints are too big to be human, and therefore the only explanation is they must be God’s. And for generations the community has held the site and the specific rock the foot print is on to be sacred and no children are allowed on site and young men had to reach adulthood to be taught about the site and its importance to the community. During drought elders would come to the site to pray, offer sacrifices and before they got home the rain would have arrived. The site was also the site for serious conversations and discussions about the community and its culture and practices. The site used to have a tree with a beehive and anyone who arrived at the site with bad intentions was swiftly pounced upon and stung. A white man once arrived at the site with his two sons to try and take away the footprint- he fainted on site. Community sacrifices have diminished at the site but the site still attracts pilgrims from far and wide.