By Tayo Ogunseye
With the sounds of heys and cheers greeting the emergence of a foreign national who happened to be the Pan African Scrabble Association President Adekoyejo Adegbesan as the champion of the Nairobi National Scrabble Championship, some young players were also seen getting in the mix but, with their own words.
While the Hall of the Strathmore University witnessed the coronation of the Nigerian Adegbesan as the new King, Tasha Trina, Canara Mariam and Muhammed Sory who came first, second and third in the nine-student competition, ‘revelled’ in their little successes in their own ways.
Nine students who featured at the International School Section of the national tournament, engaged one another in a simple but captivating encounters as they build their word-power and strategies on the boards, especially with an African championship just few months away.
Their activities despite not conjuring the required attention as enjoyed by the main event, sit significantly in the run-up to the African Youth Scrabble Championship in August (14-17) which will be hosted by Kenya.
Interestingly, The Pride of Africa is one of the African countries which wields a strong scrabble youth programme as it continues to set-up the next Word-Warriors who could rule the mind game in next circle.
All from the JM Cambridge Homeschool knew sharing the same space with Grand Masters like Allan Oyende and Nderitu Gitonga is a memorable gift that would be handy on their journey to reach the pinnacle and attain stardom in scrabble as they continue their build-up to the August fiesta
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