Most Ngando are farmers, but due to a lack of transportation, it is difficult to get their harvest to market. As a result, they remain impoverished. There is some fishing and gathering, but most live day to day. Some who graduate from school are employed in small businesses and the public sector. Most are nominally Christian, but there remains a strong adherence to divination. Two cults exist, the largest of which is Kitawala. Kitawala belief is that Jesus is the God of white people and Kitawala is the god of black people. They claim vaccinations are a white man’s strategy to kill African children.
May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments. … And may these words of mine … be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else. (1 Kings 8:57-60 NASB)
