Currently, the christian Churches keep a solid presence in Kenya's public life. President Moi himself is a christian and regularly fulfils his religious duties, but the Church-State relationship is double faced: the government has always avoided frontal clashes with the Church, but the independent and accusatory attitude of the priests leads in occasions to a latent tension that results in the prohibition of certain religious publications. On the other hand, missions are strongly rooted in the life of rural communities. It is truly meaningful that, in many villages, the most solid and apparent building is a church belonging to any of the christian branches.

Native beliefs, based on animism and magic, persist in the deep tribal spirit, but their expression has been reduced to the individual or family level. However, traditional beliefs still direct the tribes' social structures, their habits, rites and dances. Circumcision of children or youngsters is a usual practice. Fortunately the brutal and humiliating female equivalent is illegal and is now reduced, but is still strongly rooted in some tribes' beliefs. Finally, magic ceremonies, initiation rites and oaths that used to sprout within secret societies, its most famous expression in the 20th century being the Mau-Mau, sporadically do still arise upon ethnic violence outbreaks.

Hinduism, in its diverse varieties, predominates in the Indian minority. Same as Pakistanis, Hindus arrived to Kenya as workers serving the British Empire for the railway works. Those who survived the harsh labour settled in the large cities, especially in Nairobi and the coast, thriving to become one of the wealthiest communities in Kenya.