The value of leadership cannot be overstated because leaders are the key drivers of institutions and organizations. Leadership has been researched and discussed through many lenses including leadership theories, leadership principles, leadership traits, leadership behavior, and leadership competencies. Leadership research and leadership studies have delved into best leadership process and practices in an attempt to promote good leadership including transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and servant leadership. Organizational leadership shapes organizational performance and institutional culture. However, leadership does not occur in a cultural vacuum. Paying attention to the overall context within which organizational leadership takes place is key to arriving at valid conclusions and proposals. This project located its Christian leadership discussion in the African cultural leadership context, localized in the Kenyan institutional context. It intentionally focused on integrity in leadership, otherwise termed leadership integrity. Such leadership integrity was gleaned through contextual lenses as proposed by scholars such as Vhumani Magezi, John Brown Ikenye, Jeremiah Ole Koshal, Timothy A. Brubaker, Gregg Okeson, Tite Tienu, Emmanuel Katongole, and Foday-Khabenje, among others. The purpose of this research was to proposes best practices that promote leadership integrity in Christian institutions of higher learning in Kenya. It sampled participants from three Christian institutions with a sample population of five leaders, ten former students and fifteen current students from each institution studied, a total of ninety participants. The leaders and former students responded to questionnaires while the current students interacted in researcher-facilitated focus groups. The data was analyzed and corroborated to provide findings and conclusions on promoting integrity in leadership in the African context.The project concluded that the levels of leadership integrity in Christian institutions of higher learning in Kenya are low, and that although there are efforts being put in place to promote integrity in leadership the efforts face enumerable real hinderances. This project suggests some of the best practices and processes that may promote integrity in leadership in the African cultural context. Key to promoting leadership integrity among Christian leaders in Kenya is paying critical attention to the cultural nuances around power structures through a patron-client lens and to African cultural leadership virtues such as community, relationships, mentorship and a holistic non-dualistic spirituality and cosmology. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]