On a recent visit to Lamu District, The Standard’s Senior Reporter Ngumbao Kithi and photojournalist Maarufu Mohamed encountered the travails of the Boni, a small hunter-gatherer tribe on the verge of extinction.
Forgotten by the Government for decades, the Boni have always turned to nature for food and medicine. For example, in Basuba Village, there is a dispensary with no medicine, no roads, no running water and no shops.