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Se dice que el manantial de la humanidad está ("estuvo"? o "es"? o "fue"?) en África.
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@Lou Ann: "Está" or "estuvo" would be correct.
Still, there is something that bothers me about that use of "manantial" as "origin". Also when used in a figurative sense (not that often, btw.), "manantial" is the origin from where something flows and in this case I feel humanity as a product, not as a streaming current.
Las ideas de Platón son el manantial de la filosofía.
Plato's ideas are the source of philosophy.
So, for reasons of style, I would use "se dice que el origen de la humanidad está/estuvo en África"... Less poetic, but more accurate.
