GOOGLE HONORS THE LATE KIMANI MARUGE WITH A DOODLE

Today, 11 years ago, Kimani Maruge stepped into a
classroom for the first time at age 84, and Google is
commemorating the historic day with its homepage doodle
of January 12, 2015.

On January 12, 2004, Maruge enrolled in the first grade
class at Kapkenduiywo Primary School in Eldoret, Kenya,
making him the oldest person in the world to start primary
education; a feat which was officially documented in the
Guinness Book of World Records four months after.

Maruge’s enrolment was motivated by the Free Primary
Education introduced by the Mwai Kibaki administration in
2003, reports Allfrica.com, but what really began his
journey was his uncertainty about his Christian beliefs and desire to smarten up his arithmetic acumen.


“People have been telling me things in the Bible, which I do
not know if they are true,” Maruge said in 2004. “I want to
read the Holy Book for myself and find out.” In a report on
globalaging.com , Maruge said he believed he had been
cheated for a long time about his earnings and he wanted to
calculate his money.

Kimani Maruge died on August 14, 2009 having achieved
what he called his lifelong dreams. He didn’t mind picking a
world record along the way, and even 11 years later, a
space on every PC screen worldwide.
The Google Doodle is an occasional stylization of the Google
logo on its homepage to celebrate holidays, events,
achievements and people.

Source: http://techcabal.com/2015/01/12/google-honors-late-kimani-maruge-doodle/



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Yeah... I got to know about maruge from the movie, the first grader. . . talk about overcoming challenges.

yeah The first Grader .... They told him to go and rest in peace replied .... I AM NOT DEAD

Chai, so he died in Primary 5 ?

May his soul RIP.

Amen.

He must have been very passionate about education.

I've watched the film made in his honour also

This is news to me

Wow...nyc one!

Yes even when the mistress told him * its not for you* ...maruge replied, I heard it myself over the radio. They said its for EVERYBODY. Indeed education is for everybody

optimiza:
Yes even when the mistress told him * its not for you* ...maruge replied, I heard it myself over the radio. They said its for EVERYBODY. Indeed education is for everybody

Lovely