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He is 31 years old At nine months old, a failed measles injection by a local nurse caused avascular necrosis, leading to lifelong hip pain and leg weakness until his hip replacement surgery Four of his siblings died in childhood (likely related to sickle cell trait in the family), making his survival a "statistical miracle" At age 10, he dropped out of school due to poverty but returned after his mother worked as a cleaner for six years to pay his fees He learned chess as a kid at a local barber's shop in a Lagos slum while playing video games with friends Barely spoke English when he started secondary school (mostly Yoruba at home) but quickly picked it up from classmates His mother was a petty trader (thrift clothes seller), and his father sold spare parts. They met in a Lagos market Chess helped him develop a strong photographic memory, which he used to cram for exams and survive without parental allowances He became Nigeria's No 13 ranked chess player and earned the National Master title at age 20 He won gold medals representing Yaba College of Technology in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and the RCCG Chess Championship He also won the National Friends of Chess Tournament and the Chevron Chess Open He got a diploma in computer science and used chess winnings to support himself through school Founded Chess in Slums Africa in September 2018 as a volunteer-driven nonprofit after visiting slums like Majidun The organization has reached thousands of underprivileged kids, including producing a 10-year-old champion with cerebral palsy Tunde Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon (over 60 hours) in Times Square, New York, in 2024 Featured in CNN African Voices for his work Tunde has a younger brother (two years apart) He credits chess with saving him from slum poverty and giving him an "intellectual identity" He once simultaneously won 10 chess games at the DLD Conference in Germany First African to win the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact in Spain. Won the Corporate Chess Championship in Malawi with a perfect 7/7 score Tunde dreams of building the world's biggest chess institute in Nigeria . . . . Tunde Onakoya has brought attention to Africa through Chess. He started teaching chess at a younger age to children. I'm talking of around 2013/2014 when he was meeting at parks around Lagos State, just to teach kids in the open (mostly after work hours) . . Today, I am more interested in telling you more about him, and how he has also risen from a place of deep poverty and struggles. He has done soooo much for people and it's only expected that these past impacts would show on him as well You might have your reservations about him, but you cannot downplay how he used the game of chess to bring great changes to children's lives. . . A lot of children now have access to education, purpose and meaning, thanks to Chess. You are also part of his story. Tunde didn't do all these alone. Your support, your accolades, your retweet, your reposts, everything So look at the bigger picture. Think of the kids whose lives have changed from taking alcohols and drugs on the streets of slums, to having regulated mental health and more purpose driven lives, due to Chess and the opportunity it brought. . . . . Tunde can't certainly please everyone, and yes, there might be actions that many people would attribute to him being human. But if children would smile again, because he created an opportunity for them to have their smiles again.... Then it's one of the best legacies anyone can ever have. And you also can create your own legacy to which nations would applaud, recognise and help preserve 🫂 The sky is big enough for you, I and Tunde to shine and shine bountifully well ❤️ . . . ✍️ Vincent the Therapist

Sindarov isn’t going to win today

Ronaldo will be facing Buffon standard keepers everyday in the Saudi league and Messi will be stat padding against these. The game has always been rigged to favour Chibuzor.💔

One year ago In Syria, this Christian man was beheaded for refusing to renounce his faith and remove his cross. He is among many Christians recently martyred there for their unwavering faith in the face of extreme danger.

Palestinian Islamic scholar: “Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality. We will conquer Paris and Rome and rule Europe with Islam.”

I didn’t clock this until my final year. This was my greatest undoing. I didn’t understand why people will start the semester with going straight into past questions. I was trying to understand things from first principles. It was my funeral.

Islam is such an integral part of Black American culture that near all of us knows the correct response to as-salamu alaykum regardless of our own faith

seeing Mamdani not back down from his religious beliefs >>>>>>

Can you solve this tricky puzzle in 60sec? Black mates in 2 moves 🤔🤔

Oh monumentally fuck off, you Nigerian grifter. You use and monetise your hate for Islam to make you money and conveniently ignore the DOCUMENTED FACT THAT THE MAJORITY OF VICTIMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MUSLIM AND PREDOMINANTLY RESIDE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. You’re a sick, twisted, pathological liar if you deny this DOCUMENTED, STATISTICAL FACT

Look at the 3 boys from Evergreen school Enugu that topped the Junior Category in South East Maths Olympiad Grand Finale. They have finished engineering maths back to back, finished lacombe back to back, also finished German maths syllabus. They fear nothing in mathematics.