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===Prehistory===

Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's [[Lake Turkana]] indicate that hominids such as ''[[homo habilis]]'' (1.9-2.5 [[mya]]) and ''[[homo erectus]]'' (1.8-350,000 [[BCE]]) are possible direct ancestors of modern [[Homo sapiens]] and lived in Kenya during the [[pleistocene]]. One particular discovery made by famous paleanthropologist [[Richard Leakey]] and [[Kimoyakamoya Kimeukimeu]] was the skeleton of [[Turkana boy]] (1.6 mya) belonging to Homo erectus.

===Colonial history===