![]() ![]() Not long after it was established, worsening civil war and poverty in the region shaped it into a slum community lacking adequate public sanitation. ![]() Katwe first became a site for residential life at the beginning of the 1970s. ![]() The book describes Katwe, the slum where Mutesi grew up. The book received much visibility for its focus on a chess master who is not white and male, combining this professional achievement with the unique, competitive challenges of being, or becoming, an African woman in a rapidly globalizing world. The book contextualizes Mutesi’s formative development in the slums of a country fraught with war and economic strife, which she endured thanks to her parents, who fostered in her a love of the intellectual life, and which she eventually was able to leave. The Queen of Katwe (2016), a biography by American author Tim Crothers, chronicles the life of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan woman who became a chess prodigy and later a world-renowned chess champion. ![]()
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