Kimani Maruge

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Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to start primary school -- he enrolled first grade in 2004 aged 84. [1] Although he has no papers to prove his age, Maruge believes he was born in 1920.

Maruge attends Kapkenduiywa Primary School in Eldoret, Kenya, he said that the governments announcement of universal and free elementary education in 2003 prompted him to enrol.

Maruge is a widower and a great-grandfather (two of his 30 grandchildren attend the same school.) He was a combatant in the Mau Mau Uprising against the British colonizers in the 1950s.

In 2005 Maruge, who is a model student was elected head boy of his school.

In September 2005 Maruge boarded a plane for the first time in his life and headed to New York City to address the United Nations Millennium Development Summit on the importance of free primary education. [2]

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