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How I lost my religion: Atheists in Kenya president Harrison Mumia

Harrison Mumia president Atheists in Kenya [Photo: Wilberforce Okwiri]

Harrison Mumia, 39, grew up in a religious family. He went to church, attended Bible studies and was baptised.

But when he was about 24 and a university student, he stopped believing. “Nothing happened to make me stop believing. I wasn’t walking one day and ‘saw the light’,” he says with a laugh.

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