I sat outside my wattle-and-daub house in Bargoni and reflected on how much I would miss this small village that had been my home for 12 months as I undertook fieldwork among the Boni hunter-gatherers in this remote corner of north-eastern Kenya, in the Diocese of Garissa, writes Mark Faulkner. I was joined by my friend and landlord, Bobitu Kololo. “Bobitu, what do you think we have learned during my stay in Bargoni?” Bobitu was quiet for a few moments. “Marko,” he said. “I have learnt that Christians and Muslims can live happily together.”This was a startling admission since, from the conversion of the Boni to Islam in the 1960s, the community had been subjected to a barrage of anti-Christian sentiment from an increasingly extreme brand of Islam funded