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Sharpening our knowledge of prehistory on East Africa’s bone harpoons

20 Feb 2017

A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the largest and most diverse collection of prehistoric bone...

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Mathare, Nairobi

Building from the ground up: participatory design in Kenya’s oldest slum

05 Aug 2015

In a landmark project with UN-Habitat, a team of Cambridge researchers has designed a community centre in one of Kenya’s biggest and oldest slums...

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Mau Mau gang

How the British treated 'hardcore' Mau Mau women

28 Aug 2014

New research on the treatment of 'hardcore' female Mau Mau prisoners by the British in the late 1950s sheds new light on how ideas about gender...

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Farming the 'long-necked thing’: moving from cows to camels

23 Sep 2013

A move from cattle herding to camel keeping among Kenyan farmers is more than an economic transition, it represents a fundamental shift in age-old...

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Beachcombing for early humans in Africa

31 May 2013

From the earliest modern humans to the present day, our species has evolved dramatically in both biological and behavioural terms. What forces...

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Joy Juma

A conservation leader in the making

13 Oct 2011

Joy Juma, from Kenya, is among the first early-career conservation practitioners to take an innovative Masters programme at the University of...

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