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Was the oldest person on earth Kenyan and we didn't know it?

Mzee Wanyondu was buried at his Magaragara village home in Mihuti location near South Tetu Girls. [Courtesy]

Kenya could have registered the oldest man in the Guinness World Records had the government heeded a family’s wish to carry out a DNA test on its now deceased great-great-grandfather.

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