Out Of Africa Via Chessboard

         Phioni Mutesi (16) brought her slum experience out of Africa to visit a Valencia, CA chess tournament.  " I was yearning for porridge" Mutesi said, as she recalled how one day in (2005) she followed her brother to a place where kids gathered to play chess.  Those who showed up got a free bowl of porridge.  Mutesi, who was living on the streets of a squalid Katwe, Ungandan village, near the Ungandan Capital of Kampala, kept returning to the makeshift youth center for food.  Her father died of Aids and her mother struggled to feed four children.  Phioni Mutesi is the youngest person to ever win the African Chess Championship (2005) and the first Ugandan female with a chess title.  See full story, www.latimes.com.