She served as President of the Writers' Association of Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997 and organized Abidjan's International Poetry Festival from 1998 to 2002. During the political strife in Côte d'Ivoire (from 2002 until 2011) she self-exiled to France. In 2005, she received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for her novel "Matins de couvre-feu" (Mornings after curfew). In 2009 she won the Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize. Since 2013, Boni divides her time between Abidjan and Paris.