Lamu's Bt cotton thrives, rekindling old and almost forgotten love

Members of the Lake Kenyatta Farmers Cooperative society from Mpeketoni in Lamu attending to the crop [Japheth Makau, Standard]

Lamu prides itself in the fame of its battalion of coxswains in the sea and, on land, women whose penchant for, and expertise in, riding the motorbike is simply bedazzling. In the narrow streets, children flog rather submissive donkeys, the muezzin's call reverberates across buildings whose facades spot flawless whitewash and, far off in the fields, a farmer admires his sprawling crop of cotton.