Great educator Siddiq Lone dies in New York

Siddiq Lone with former PM Raila Odinga’s wife, Ida. The late Lone served as the deputy headmaster at Highway Secondary School when Ida was also working as a teacher there. [Photo: Courtesy]

By Correspondent

New York: Siddiq Lone, who taught most of the pre-independence generation of Asian students at the Duke of Gloucester School, who subsequently became the thinkers, professionals and business leaders of the new Kenya, died on Christmas Day in New York following a heart attack.