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    Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approximately 10 miles (16 km) from end to end and 3 miles (5 km) at its widest point, lies in the eastern part...
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  • based in Kilifi County. He was born in 1972 on Ngodhe Island 10 km off west of Rusinga Island in the Lake Victoria of Homa Bay County Kenya. He is known...
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  • Ndhiwa constituencies. It has five electoral wards namely; Mfangano Island, Rusinga Island, Kasgunga, Gembe and Lambwe. The current Member of Parliament is...
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    migrated to Kenya from Uganda and settled on the two Lake Victoria islands of Rusinga and Mfangano, others also settled on the mainland areas including...
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    Mboya left a wife and five children. He is buried in a mausoleum on Rusinga Island, which was built in 1970. Mboya's role in Kenya's politics and transformation...
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  • Kenya. It is held on the last Thursday and Friday before Christmas on Rusinga Island. The festival was founded by Anne Eboso and administered through Chula...
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  • leakeyi is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid known from the Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya. Rusingaceros is known from the holotype KNM-RU 2821, an almost...
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    Mfangano Island lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria, at the mouth of the Winam Gulf. Part of Kenya, it lies west of Rusinga Island. The island is 65 km2...
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    described in 1983, having been taken from a site called Bovid Hill on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria. Butchered bones found in 2011 with stone tools suggested...
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    life was a melange of police work and archaeology. They investigated Rusinga Island and Olorgesailie. At the latter site they were assisted by a team of...
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    is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in Nature in 1943. It is also known by the...
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  • Kenya. The fossil was discovered in rocks of the Hiwegi Formation on Rusinga Island in 1949, but was subsequently only mentioned once in scientific literature...
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  • the local population. These stations would include Gendia, Wire Hill, Rusinga Island, Kanyadoto, Karungu, Kisii (Nyanchwa), and Kamagambo. In 1913, he acquired...
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    parvus (previously "D." parvus Withworth 1958) (early Miocene) from Rusinga Island, Kenya Genus Siamotragulus Siamotragulus sanyathanai Thomas, Ginsburg...
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  • genus of crocodile known from the Early Miocene Hiwegi Formation of Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya; it was originally named as a species of Crocodylus...
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    Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's mausoleum in Bondo, Kenya Tom Mboya Mausoleum, Rusinga Island, Homa Bay County, Kenya Palm Grove Cemetery in Monrovia, Liberia National...
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  • recreate the environment in which the primate, Proconsul, lived in the Rusinga Island region. He saw similarities between this environment and the habitat...
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    Proconsul have since been discovered. The Leakey expedition of 1947–1948 to Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria uncovered more species of Proconsul. Mary Leakey made...
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    Cave. In October 1948, Mary discovered a Proconsul africanus skull on Rusinga Island. Mary Leakey also recorded and published the Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings...
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    the Nubi, and the Olusuba-speaking Suba people (Kenya) from Rusinga Island, Mfangano Island, and sections of Homa Bay County. The Nubians were settled...
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    missing] South Africa Seroa speakers Singa Atlantic–Congo [data missing] Rusinga Island Singa speakers Socotra Swahili Afro-Asiatic by 2009 AD Soqotri people...
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    including several partial skeletons of Dendropithecus macinnesi on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria. Other species are Simiolus andrewsi, Simiolus cheptumoae...
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    distal end of a right humerus has been recovered from Miocene beds of Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. The 24–6 million year old fossil could have originated...
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  • snail: Urocyclidae indet. Mfangano Island Rusinga Island Feibel & Brown 1991 Harrison 1986, pp. 265–6 "Maboko Island". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved...
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  • The Hiwegi Formation is a geological formation on Rusinga Island in Kenya preserving fossils dating to the Early Miocene period. The Hiwegi Formation is...
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    Hill, Kendu Bay. These missionaries established stations at Wire Hill, Rusinga Island, Kanyadoto, Karung, Kisii and Kamagambo. These were all in South Nyanza...
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    at sites around the ancient Kisingiri volcano in Kenya on Rusinga Island and Mfangano Island in Lake Victoria. The name Ekembo is Suba for "ape" or "monkey"...
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    Miocene of Riversleigh, Australia) ?Ciconia minor (Early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya) ?Ciconia sarmatica (Late Miocene of Credinţa, Romania) ?Ciconia...
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    are known from the Miocene Beglia Formation (Tunisia), Early Miocene Rusinga Island (Lake Victoria), the Albertine Rift (Congo), Ombo (Kenya) and the Messinian...
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    Buvuma Islands. Rusinga is rich in fossils, and Mary Leakey found the skull of Proconsul africanus on the island. The Miocene floras of Rusinga and Mfwanganu...
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