Mungiki began in the early 1990s among displaced Kikuyu refugees in Laikipia seeking to support one another after violent land conflicts left them landless. Mutongi writes, “Many of the Kikuyu who found themselves landless as a result of the ‘ethnic conflicts’ ended up moving into the neighboring Laikipia area. Once they had relocated, many of the dispossessed responded to their impoverishment by joining together and forming Mungiki, a Kikuyu term that simply means a ‘big gathering’ or ‘the mass

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