BBCNEWS Celebrating Life At 117 January 6, 2018
She is taking pitcures of people who have come to see her and celebrate this big day with her. There is more than 90 years difference between me and her. Shes 117 and i am just 23. I am priscilla ngethe. I am returning to my ancestral home in kenya to celebrate a remarkable birthday of one of the oldest people in the world. My great grandmother, elizabeth koinange. I am here to discover the secrets of her long life, as she throws a party and reunites five generations of my family. This is kiambu, where i was born. Its about ten miles from nairobi, the capital of kenya. This fertile land has be...