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Forgotten site with rich history


By Nikko Tanui

In this forsaken area in Turkana, lies a gem in the country’s history. The world turned its attention to the area, Fort Ternan, in 1961 when Dr Louis Leakey discovered the fossil of “a very early ancestor of man himself”, Kenyapithecus Wickeri, estimated to have lived 14 million years.

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