All, or almost all, researchers agree that the origin of Humanity is in Africa. What they do not agree on is the exact place where the first hominid, the first man, arose.
German researchers now believe they have solved this mystery:we all come from Malawi. Specifically from the northern region of Karonga.
Professor Friedemann Schrenk, from the Goethe University of Frankfurt, found some prehistoric tools and hominid teeth, which could be proof that this area of the Rift Valley can be considered the cradle of Humanity.
The discovery was made at the Malema excavation, about 10 kilometers from Karonga. But also in the same place some of the first dinosaurs have been found, which lived about 100 million years ago. The earliest hominids are much more recent, only about 6 million years ago.
But Karonga is not a particularly nice place. During the 19th century it was an important slave trade center. And today there is a uranium mine there which, curiously, on July 11, 2008, celebrated the fact that it had been in operation for 1.5 million hours without any radioactive accident. Strange thing, because the mine was previously known for its frequent accidents.