For the Kikuyu, health is not the absence of disease: it is a balance between body, spirit and community. The healer, mũndu mũgo, preserves knowledge passed down orally for generations.
Healing is never an event involving a single individual, but involves the family and, often, the entire village: illness, in fact, is an imbalance of the person in their social network.
Traditional medicine is healing, but also memory, culture and resilience and, despite its apparent decline in the contemporary urban environment, the figure of the mũndũ mũgo continues to adapt to social changes, remaining an essential point of reference for health and the management of magical-religious issues.
