Above: Koobi Fora landscape. Image by Kathy Schick, courtesy of THE STONE AGE INSTITUTE®. All rights reserved.
This song was written during our first field season at Koobi Fora, East Turkana, Kenya at the start of Nick Toth and Kathy Schick's dissertation research. It was a favorite of Kamoya Kameu, leader of the hominid-hunting team, who always requested it at our end-of- season ngoma (dance party). Koobi Fora has been one of the most productive paleoanthropological localities in the world, with abundant fossil hominins, mammalian fauna, and Palaeolithic sites.
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Sunlight on the far horizon
Shades of gold and gray
Songs of birds, a shrill “Awaken”
Young giraffes at play
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Lion standing on the headland
Oryx far below
Lake shimmering in the sunrise
Mountains all aglow
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Sandy streambeds dry and dusty
Waiting for the rains
Green acacias spread their branches
Form a winding lane
"Koobi Fora"
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