![]() Queen of Katwe follows the rise of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi as a chess player growing up in grinding poverty in the Kampala slum of Katwe, with her single mother barely able to support her and her two siblings. Tributes were coming in for her on social media as Ugandans expressed sadness and recalled her role in the 2016 movie directed by Mira Nair and filmed in Kampala. Local media reported that Waligwa had been in and out of hospital with a recurring brain tumour and had previously received treatment, including surgery, in India. She was “a darling to many”, Gayaza high school said on Twitter. The cause was a brain tumour, according to the girls’ secondary school she had attended since 2018. ![]() Nikita Pearl Waligwa died on Saturday at a hospital near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15.
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