Beyond Mount Kenya Region demonstrates how theological, practical, and/or holistic education that was initially set to bene­t one side of the divide ultimately turned out to be the proverbial axe that served the entire community. Methodologically, it has historicized theo-mission education to demonstrate the pangs of birth in African Christianity, with particular reference to Central Kenyan region. In so doing, the author has endeavoured to reveal some of the intrigues that led to the birth of Christian education in the rural set-ups of the tropical Africa, by drawing on speci­c examples hitherto unknown in mission history.