Kenya: More Women Enrol in Literacy Programmes Than Men

8 September 2017

In January 2004, the late Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge, then aged 84 years, joined two of his grandchildren as a new pupil at Kapkenduiywa Primary School in Eldoret.

Today, the Guinness Book of World Records lists him as the oldest person to ever enrol in elementary school.

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