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The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers6/2/2023 ![]() It is rickety, like everything else around it. It is a ramshackle structure that lists alarmingly to one side, held together by scrap wood, rope, a few nails and faith. And though she has known many of them for a few years, they have no idea where she is from or where she aspires to go, because Phiona Mutesi is from a place where girls like her don’t talk about that.Īgape church could collapse at any moment. When she learned all this, she asked just one question: “Is it cold there?”īut here she is, journeying with her countrymen 27 hours across the globe. ![]() ![]() She had no idea that her win would send her to the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, in remote Russia no idea where Russia was. She had no idea that she’d qualified for the Olympiad no idea what the Olympiad was. Nobody had told her what was at stake, so she just played, like always. ![]() When she won the match that put her on this plane she had no idea what it meant. She flies to Siberia in late September with nine teammates, all in their 20s, much older than she is. ![]()
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