After a long career in film and broadcasting, in 2001 Oliver Litondo retreated to his farm in Kitale, away from the spotlight he had enjoyed for four decades. Then one day in September 2009, the 62-year-old actor received a call from a film agent in Nairobi informing him that he had been identified for a role in a new movie and he was required to send his profile promptly
“I traveled to Nairobi shortly after and was auditioned for a role which I later found out to be that of Kimani Maruge, the world’s oldest pupil,” Litondo recalls. “The director thought I fitted the part and immediately handed me the script.”
The makers of The First Grader had dropped the idea of picking Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman to play the role of the late Maruge, who captured the attention of the world after enrolling in primary school in Eldoret at the age of 84 in 2009. read on
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