Ronald Ngala Statue in Nairobi CBD Gets National Honours
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The Ronald Ngala Statue which is located in the Nairobi Business District (CBD) has been declared a national monument.
In a gazette notice, CS Sports and Culture Amina Mohammed stated the site was found to have historical value and would be protected. In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 25 (1) (d) of the National Museums and Heritage Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture, and Heritage declares the statue specified in the Schedule, which she considers being of historical interest, to be a monument within the meaning of the Act, the CS noted.
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Bird lovers will today engage in a bird-sighting and recording event to mark the World Migratory Bird Day and eBird Global Big Day.
The day is aimed at creating awareness on migratory birds, the need to conserve their habitat and give bird lovers a chance to record their sightings on the eBird application.
“Bird lovers will record their sightings across all birding hotspots like Important Bird Areas. They can also record from anywhere, from their homes or the garden. Once they record the bird species on the e-Bird application, their home countries will then be ranked according to the number of species recorded,” Richard Kipng’eno, a bird expert at Nature Kenya said, adding that anyone can participate.
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One of the oldest human burials in Africa was found by scientists, who discovered the remnants of a toddler that is 78,000 years ago.
Scientists discover the oldest human burial in Africa
According to a group of scientists, they found evidence of the first known human buried in a grave. The location of the fossil is 10 miles inland from southeast Kenya s ocean beaches. Their investigation shows the grave of an early Homo sapiens child dated at 78,000 years old via carbon dating, reported National Geographic.
Even though some human burials in the Middle East and Europe are older, the excavation in Africa is one of the oldest unquestionable examples of a body interred in a pit prepared for that purpose anywhere in the world.
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Africa s Oldest Human Grave Found, Toddler Buried With Pillow 78,000 Years Ago
A skeleton of a roughly 2.5 to 3.0-year-old toddler in a flexed position on a pillow dating to 78 thousand years ago was excavated at Panga ya Saidi in Africa.
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Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known human burial in Africa in southeast Kenya’s MSA layers of Panga ya Saidi (PYS), a cave site on the tropical upland coast. A skeleton of a roughly 2.5 to 3-year-old toddler in a flexed position on a pillow dating to 78 thousand years ago was excavated. While scientists argue that the human burials in the Middle East and Europe are some of the oldest, the African grave of the child is one of the earliest known across the continent, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The cave sediment and the bones helped scientists unveil the details of the evolution of the funerary practices in Homo sapiens.
Australian researchers help date ancient child’s burial to 78,000 years
By Melissa Coade
Thursday May 6, 2021
Maasai sitting by the ocean on the beach. (Image: Adobe/shangarey)
The earliest known deliberate burial of humans living in Africa has been found in a cave in Kenya, with the discovery of bone fragments of a small child.
The body of a small 2.5-3-year old child, known by researchers as ‘Mtoto’ (‘child’ in Swahili), was buried in the cave near the coast of Kenya, on its side and with legs drawn up to its chest.
The finding at Panga ya Saidi, reported in