Emeka Nwandiko

A motley crew of chess players from the African continent can be seen playing at a restaurant just a stone’s throw away from Yeoville’s park. Such is the new African presence in Yeoville that mini-capitals of Harare, Kinshasa, Addis Ababa, Accra and Lagos have sprung up as restaurants, telephone kiosks, cosmetic stores, grocery shops and places of worship to respective gods.