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Kaya Mudzi Muvya

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Sacred forest

Among the Mijikenda the forest is their home. Each group has a kaya, or sacred forest. Kaya means both home and sacred forest. The Kaya Mudzi Muvya was one of the three kaya of the Rabai people. Traditionally they lived in the forest, although now they live in communities outside the forest. Nonetheless, the kaya plays an important role in the lives of the Rabai, as the home of their ancestral spirits and the locus for various ceremonies. The forest also provides the source for various traditional herbs.

Actual ritual places are considered private and are closed to the public, but a replica has been constructed in Rabai as part of an ecotourism project.

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