10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi Becomes A U.S. National Chess Master - AfroTech

A 10-year-old Nigerian-American is now a United States National Chess Master. Nicholas Kristof, who has been covering Tanitoluwa Adewumi’s story for The New York Times for many years, broke the news on his Twitter page. “Remember Tani Adewumi, the Nigerian refugee kid I wrote about 2 years ago who won the NY State chess championship while in a homeless shelter? Now well housed (thanks to you readers!), he just won a championship and is officially a National Chess Master as a 10-yr-old 5th grader!” he wrote. Things could have gone many ways for the 10-year-old Nigerian-American. While his family was living and thriving in Nigeria, they were threatened with violence from the Boko Haram terrorists. The threat of violence forced the Adewumi family to flee from Nigeria in 2017, according to NPR. A kind pastor in Queens, NY, provided them temporary housing, but ultimately referred the family to the NY Department of Housing Services, where they were referred to a homeless shelter. To make

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