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TOM MBOYA MAUSOLEUM
It was built in honour and remembrance of the late Tom Mboya. This is a burial place of Tom Mboya. It has information on the family, and Luo history. Tom Mboya's role as an international agent of Kenyan government is also presented. The transfer of this mausoleum to the care and protection of the National Museums of Kenya has led to its proper management and conservation.The Mausoleum will form an infrastructure of the greater museum to come on the Rusinga Island.
KANAM PREHISTORIC SITE
Kanam is situated along the shores of Lake Victoria on Homa Peninsular around Homa Mountain. The site was gazetted in August 1933. In 1932, Louis Leakey's expendition discovered a fossil human mandible together with Pleistocene fauna and pebble tools in the early Pleistocene Kanam beds at Kanam West. Initially, it was thought to be australopithecine. Doubts were thrown against this specimen, and Leakey suggested that the fossil was that of Homo sapiens but later Leakey supported Sir A. Keith?s view of australopithecine. Today, they are seen to be Neanderthaloid. Recently, researchers found palaeontological bones dating between 1 and 6 million years ago at the site.
SIMBI NYAIMA
No sooner had they left than a heavy storm swept the whole village and it sank. The locals believe it happened in the olden days.
For more information contact:
The Curator,
P.O.Box 1779- 40100
Kisumu
Tel: 057- 2020332/ +254721493250
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