Kyama M. Mugambi is Associate Professor of World Christianity at Yale Divinity School. His research examines the contemporary history of Christianity in Africa, with particular attention to urban Pentecostalism, indigenous agency, mission, kinship, and oral liturgical and catechetical practices.
He is the author of A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya (Baylor University Press, 2020). The International Bulletin of Missionary Research named it one of the ten outstanding books of 2020 in mission studies and World Christianity. He is also co-author, with Mark Shaw, of Christians in the City of Nairobi (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). His articles appear in Studies in World Christianity, Missiology, and Church History, and he is completing a monograph on Pentecostal liturgies in urban Africa.
Mugambi is editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research and associate editor of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. He was principal investigator for a Nagel Institute project on alternative kinship structures in African churches (2021–2024) and a Whitney Fellow at Yale (2023–24). He is faculty lead for Yale’s Project on Religion and Society in Africa and co-convenes the Yale-Edinburgh World Christianity conference. He holds a PhD in World Christianity from Africa International University, Kenya. [See more about Kyama Mugambi here ]
