"Wherever they have come from, that is not where they are now.
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For him, the movie feels like a great acknowledgment of his work and that of all the kids in his program. Today, coach Katende has multiple chess academies all over Uganda and he has reached over 1500 children. There is always a dream to achieve, so you have to plan with the pieces you have, to achieve the goals that you have." So even in your daily life you have to plan, you have to strategize. "If you look at the board, it is like life itself, like, you look at it when you are starting a game, you always have to plan everything you are starting.
"Chess has taught me many things," she says. Just over a year after her life was depicted on the big screen, Phiona explains how chess has changed her life. Robert Katende has lots of 'Phionas' at his chess academies Phiona is by no means the only success story in coach Katende's chess program, but the American sports journalist Tim Crothers chose her as the main character for his book, "The Queen of Katwe." And that book was turned into the Disney movie. In 2016, a film about Phiona's life came out, produced by Disney, called "Queen of Katwe." Just as the film depicts, Phiona started playing chess tournaments and went back to school thanks to a scholarship. It turned out to be a life-changing moment.
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"I play chess because it makes you think outside the box." He says he hopes to manage musicians when he grows up.Īt first, Phiona wasn't interested in the chess lessons. She was busy working, but her older brother Brian had signed up for Katende's chess program. And one day, the desire for a free meal became so overwhelming that Phiona followed him. That day she did a lot more than just fill her stomach, she discovered that she had a talent for chess.
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His classroom is full of kids gathered around chessboards, playing games, with intense focus. One small boy explains why he decided to take up chess. 'Chess helps you think outside the box,' says one of the players at the academy Film festival seeks to show a different Africa 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.
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