Not everything at Swahili Coast Studio begins beautifully. Sometimes it begins with a pencil, a piece of squared paper and a few lines that probably make considerably more sense to the person drawing them than to anyone else. The timeline for our Turkana Boy book began exactly like that. The problem was simple enough: how…
A little piece of Kenya’s ancient past for the wall. This illustrated Turkana Boy poster brings together one of Kenya’s most remarkable discoveries, the landscape of ancient East Africa and some of the animals that shared his world around 1.6 million years ago. Turkana Boy — also known as KNM-WT 15000 — was discovered near…
A journey 1.6 million years into Kenya’s past — where science ends and imagination begins. Meet Turkana Boy More than 1.6 million years ago, a boy died near the shores of an ancient lake in what is now northern Kenya. In 1984, his almost complete skeleton was discovered at Nariokotome, near Lake Turkana. He became…