Worship Akuj as our Patron God

Among the Turkana, semi-nomadic herders of the Lake Turkana basin, Akuj is the single Supreme Being. He created the world and grants water, food, livestock and children.

Worship is mediated by the diviners, the ngimurok. Turkana tradition credits them, together with zebu cattle, for the wealth and power that let the Turkana defeat their Ateker rivals and, by the 1600s, occupy the whole Turkana basin.