SAMUEL KAMITHA
Mr. Samuel Kamitha is a trained taxidermist and cultural anthropologist.
When local researchers embarked on the World Cultural Decade 1988-1997, Mr. Kamitha was contracted to research and come up with a paper on how best to safe guard Mount Kenya forest from over exploitation. He based his research on the strength that the local community had useful knowledge and understanding of their environment that had guaranteed Mount Kenya as a renewable source of firewood, grazing and farming for millennia. Unfortunately, when Mount Kenya history in balanced management of the forest was lost, her Sacredness was lost as well.
The research paper whose theme was culture and development was to reflect collective memory that balances the use of resources. When the knowledge is readily available it could be ploughed back for adaptation by otherwise ignorant community as the first step in policy writing.
For the exercise to succeed Mr. Kamitha sought assistance from local elders who are the true living encyclopedia of African life systems and ethno science, the professional interpreters of native environment logy, myth and mysticism.
From 1990 to 1992 he sought assistance from the second and third grades of the Gikuyu elders. These resource persons helped create a reasonable corpus of traditional methods in management of local environment.
In 1993 through the recommendation of the same elders he was goad to Mount Kenya College of Seers. After uttering his clan as a “Munjiru” (the rightful clan of seers) he was subjected to negative confessions. He was made to fast for 40 days under the watchful eyes of the elders. Initiated up to the last 35th level of seer’s ladder in the esoteric wisdom, he passed the test of water, air, soil and fire in reference to Mountains Kirinyaga, Nyandarua, Kianjahi and Kiri Mbiruiru to complete the seer’s sign of the cross. He was put on a three days herb induced sleep known as three days death. The last herb known as the tree of life awakens the novice. By the time he regained consciousness he had acquired some unnatural/extraordinary wisdom. The candidate had reached the state of no desire.
The chief Seer marked a white cross on his face and navel to signify his recruitment to the prestigious college of seers to the Devine role of a messenger.To his credit, he acquired an instant understanding of the nature of departed spirits. This is one of the twelve disciplines in the cluster of Gikuyu wisdom. He was given a stars name like all seers and honoured with a seer’s muthigi– staff. Once the initiate is bestowed with muthigi staff, he is ritually added “an extra 30 years”– This signifies that he does not interact with his age mates because he is senior to them.
After years of struggle in path finding mission while working on a shoe string budget, finally he was exposed to the African forbidden wisdom listed under the title Gikuyu Science . For the first time, humanity will have a glimpse of the African science as known to the African sages and seers.
His conventional education has helped him in understanding the world of seers in a positive way. Though their wisdom lacks vocabularies and terminologies in a narrowed down process, the result is so precise and magical beyond comprehension in the world of logics.
Appointments
In 1990, Mr. Kamitha was appointed by the National Commission for UNESCO to submit a research paper on culture and conservation to the World Cultural Decade (1988-1997). The well researched papers were to be implemented by UNESCO and other UN. Agencies including the World Bank.
In 1992 he was appointed to co-ordinate Gikuyu and Mumbi cultural Museum’s programmes.
In 1995 he was appointed Director- General of the Gikuyu and Mumbi Cultural Museum. The same year Gikuyu and Mumbi Cultural Museum research programmes were officially recognized by UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.
In 2000, he was appointed a member in the National Cultural Committee representing the area of museums at the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO.
In 2004, he was appointed to sit in the Culture Committee of the Meru, Embu and Gikuyu (MEGA) association. He was appointed to lead in rekindling the psych of the three communities in MEGA.
In 2007 he organized Jubilee Cultural Ceremony of the three communities. The ceremony traces the history of the Ark of the Covenant from Axum to Mount Kenya where it was put to rest in 1210 AD. (Click here to read )
In 2008 together with others, he opened up the annual Mount Kenya prayer drive . The prayer drive is held every December 27th round Mount Kenya. It is geared to becoming a world pilgrimage expedition for all humanity in line with the out of Africa theory.
In 2010 he was appointed the National Chairman of the Kenya Culture and Council of Elders Association.
In 2011 he organized Freedom Fighters Prayers.
Dissemination
Electronic media: – weekly talk shows in Coro FM (Gikuyu Service) every Tuesday from 22:00 hrs GMT to 23:00 hrs GMT East African Time, which has now been running for 6 years (DSTV reception)
Pwani FM (Kiswahili Service) in KBC. He is a regular contributor.
In 1999- Forum for Understanding General Service KBC English Service.
Print Media:-
Occasionally he appears in local newspapers.
Samuel Kamitha – Director General
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