Kenya’s Lamu Port was meant to deliver great things. But, as the story of local fishermen shows, it hasn't

A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya. Dihoff Mukoto/AFP via Getty Images

For nearly two decades, successive Kenyan governments have promoted mega infrastructure projects as a pathway to development. The Lamu Port has been one of them.

In 2012, then president Mwai Kibaki – at the inauguration ceremony for a transport corridor that stretches from the Lamu Port to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and known as Lapsset – stated: