He now spends his free time plying crowded alleyways, tinged with the smell of burning trash and generator fuel, in the hope that teaching kids chess can build a better future for all of Nigeria. Onakoya said he was driven by a conviction that Nigerian education is in crisis, with many children either out of school or not learning what he sees as useful survival skills. Chess aided his rise from his own deprived childhood in Lagos. Omoyele practises at home, in a room with watermarked concrete walls and peeling blue paint and the din of crying children in the background.īabatunde Onakoya, 26, founded Chess in Slums Africa in 2018. ![]() ![]() Six Die, Several Feared Missing in Nigeria After Under-Construction High-Rise Collapses
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