Gold Chessers: Nigerian teens learn their way out of the slum on chessboards
Babatunde Onakoya, 26, inspired by the critical state of Nigerian education and his own rise from a deprived childhood through chess, founded Chess in Slums Africa in 2018.

Babatunde Onakoya, 26, inspired by the critical state of Nigerian education and his own rise from a deprived childhood through chess, founded Chess in Slums Africa in 2018.

The student-beneficiaries bagged the scholarship award after excelling in a debate competition on the causes of and the solutions to the ethnic crisis in Nigeria.