![]() ![]() Today, Mutesi is a student at Northwest University, a Christian college near Seattle that offered her a full scholarship. Katwe is a place of disease, unimaginable poverty, starvation and constant struggle. ![]() It’s about a 10-year-old girl who couldn’t read or write but picked up chess to satisfy her hunger, then fell in love with a sport that changed her life. The ensuing story, first an ESPN The Magazine article, became a book and then a movie in theaters starring Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and “Selma’s” David Oyelowo. By 2010, four years later, she had become an international chess champion. Mutesi - who ate maybe once a day - stayed at her first meeting because she was offered a bowl of porridge. Robert Katende, also from Kamapla, was holding chess club meetings to help local youth. He explained to Crothers that he had recently read a three-paragraph write-up in a Sports Outreach newsletter about a young girl living in the Katwe slum of Kampala in Uganda. “I think I have a good story for you,” he said. Patrick’s Day, 2010, and the stranger - over corned beef and cabbage - had a pitch for Crothers. ![]()
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