Around 15 years ago, he set up his classes in Katwe, attracting children with the offer of free meals. Katende runs projects for differently abled kids. It's more than just winning medals and becoming a champion."
It was in a chess class run by coach Robert Katende that Phiona and many other children like her learnt something they could apply to the rest of their lives. Katende calls it "tactical play." Film festival seeks to show a different Africa 'Chess is a philosophy for life,' says Ugandan chess coach Robert Katende Image: DW/P. Uganda: Is it still Africa's bread-basket? And the key to her remarkable story is … chess. And she went from somebody who nobody knew to someone who has had a movie made about her life.
As a kid she couldn't go to school, and now she is a college student in Seattle. There was nobody that inspired me, I only knew Katwe and the slums."įor a girl who had once lost all hope, Phiona has come a long way. "When you come from nowhere and no one knows you then no one expects anything from you and you don't expect anything from yourself," she tells DW. "I only knew Katwe. But 21-year-old Phiona Mutesi found an unusual route out of those streets, even though for years Katwe was the only world she knew. And getting out of the slum is even more difficult.
Poverty and recurrent floods make life hard for the thousands of people living there. Katwe is one of the biggest slums in Uganda's capital, Kampala. To play this audio please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 audio
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