World Scene: Kenya

Oldest pupil, 89, dies

A Kenyan man who was believed to be the world's oldest pupil died at the age of 89, five years after he entered primary school so that he could learn to read the Bible, his family said on Monday.

Joseph Stephen Kimani Nganga (un-GAH-un-GAH) Maruge (ma-ROO-gay) died on Friday at the Kariobangi Cheshire Home for the aged in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He died of stomach cancer, said his granddaughter, Anne Maruge.