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All the way to Lodwar and back

A section of Lodwar Town in Turkana County taken on 9th November 2016. [PHOTO:WILBERFORCE OKWIRI/Standard]

If you have been an avid reader of this segment, then you took the trip with us to Marsabit County (formerly in Eastern Province of Kenya), which lies east of Lake Turkana, on our mission to unveil the cradle of mankind.

Marsabit however, shares the tag 'cradle of mankind' with Turkana County (formerly in Rift Valley Province of Kenya) lying west of the lake. While Marsabit plays host to Koobi Fora, a region rich in paleoanthropological sites, Turkana (Nariokotome village) claims bragging rights as the exact region where fossil hunter Kamoya Kimeu excavated the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy, which has been termed as the missing link between apes and humans.

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