Woman Turns To Poisonous Plant To Keep Family Alive
Published on: February 12, 2014 08:28 (EAT)
The Mathenge tree is despised as a good-for-nothing tree that just won’t stop spreading. Pastoralists hate it for allegedly maiming them and their livestock with its poisonous thorns. So hated is the tree that Baringo residents even dragged a toothless goat to court as evidence that it causes the loss of animals’ teeth. But to one woman in Marigat, Mathenge is a welcome source of food that feeds her family with delicacies derived from its seeds. Esther Kahumbi reports.
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