Queen of Katwe

A rain of tributes has followed the shocking and sudden death of Disney’s Queen of Katwe star Nikita Pearl Waligwa.

She died at the age of 15, after succumbing to brain tumour.

Nikita Pearl played Gloria in the film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum. The highly successful movie starred Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o as well.

Doctors first discovered a tumour Nikita in 2016 and after radiotherapy, she was told she was cancer-free a year later.

Nikita Pearl Waligwa

Shortly after the youngster’s initial diagnosis, her mother Rachel Asiimwe Waligwa was diagnosed with cancer and given just two …