Question

Several groups in this modern-day country buried their legendary homeland’s fingo talismans within sacred kaya forests. A theologian born in this country used the tenses of the verb “to come” in two of its languages to explain concepts of potential and actual time, or sasa and zamani. In this country, goats were sacrificed under sacred sycamore fig trees by an ethnic group that traditionally looks towards this country’s (*) highest mountain when praying (-5[1])to the supreme (10[1])god (10[1])Ngai. (10[1])John (10[1])Arthur (10[2])excommunicated a native of this country with the Christian name “Johnstone” over his support of “irua.” That native (10[1])of this country later wrote about the aforementioned FGM practice in an anthropological study (10[2])with an introduction (10[3])by Bronislaw (10[1])Malinowski. (10[3])For 10 points, on what country’s namesake (-5[1])mountain does God reside per the tradition of its Kikuyu people? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Kenya [or Republic of Kenya; or Jamhuri ya Kenya] (The first sentence refers to the Mijikenda peoples of Kenya’s coast; the second refers to John Mbiti’s book African Religions and Philosophies.)
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