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Rock art to bring tourists flocking in Turkana

Art in Kapesse depicting giraffes walking left to right in Turkana. [PHOTOS: COURTESY/ AFRICANROCKART.ORG]

LODWAR: Turkana is a world centre for the study of the origins of man. Just recently, prehistoric skeletons near Lake Turkana, suggesting a conflict between two hunter-gather communities, were discovered.

In fact, Kenya is associated with the phrase ‘Cradle of Mankind’ as a result of the fossils discovered in this region.

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