What happens when you mix breath-taking scenery, people with a culture that remains largely unchanged and a landscape that houses the heritage of mankind in the form of bones and tools that are millions of years old? This final article in the series of articles on Lake Turkana and its surroundings, documents some of the efforts …
The Turkana Basin (also called the Lake Turkana basin) traverses the western part of the Kenya-Ethiopia border. It is known for its impressive fossil deposits. In 1902-3, the French aristocrat, le Vicomte Robert du Bourg de Bozas led an expedition that found and collected mammalian remains at the north end of Lake Turkana. He wrote about …
In 1973-4, David and Judith MacDougall’s filmed the documentary Lorang’s Way in the north of Kenya. It is a fascinating reality-tv-like piece on life in Turkana in the days when the president of Kenya was Jomo Kenyatta. The film follows a Turkana man called Lorang as he generously shares with the viewers, his life, including …
One of the groups of indigenous people who live in the north of Kenya, the Turkana, call the large, stunning, green lake Anam Ka’alakol, meaning “the sea of many fish”. Lake Turkana is an important resource, in particular, for the people of the north of Kenya. (For more on the culture and heritage found in …
Lake Turkana is found in the north of Kenya and extends to the south of Ethiopia. How the lake ended up being shared between these two countries is the story of who held power in the early twentieth century. Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world. It is located in the spectacular …
Since 1975, the stunning, green lake in the north of Kenya has officially been known as Lake Turkana. It was a name given in honour of one of the indigenous groups of the north of Kenya, the Turkana, by the then president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.