{"id":239420,"date":"2020-02-21T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ugandan-disney-actress-nikita-pearl-waligwa-dead-at-15"},"modified":"2020-02-21T07:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:16:41","slug":"ugandan-disney-actress-nikita-pearl-waligwa-dead-at-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ugandan-disney-actress-nikita-pearl-waligwa-dead-at-15","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Disney Actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa Dead at 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-144422\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">        \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n        \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"29.7361376673\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"54.6861814346\">\n<section id=\"cb-0b6f4967301da0e122f17445ca490430\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ugandan-Disney-Actress-Nikita-Pearl-Waligwa-Dead-at-15.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-b76503846aed09e779f1408dc01ca6fa\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31\">\n<p><strong>Nikita Pearl Waligwa<\/strong> \u2014 a young actress who starred in a Ugandan Disney movie about a chess prodigy \u2014 has reportedly died \u2026 this after battling health issues a few years earlier.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-aebcd07506aa81777c3abea3d2dc0de6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"39\">\n<p>According to the Ugandan news outlet, The Daily Monitor, Nikita recently passed away. While they don\u2019t say exactly how, the paper seems to link her death to a 2016 diagnosis \u2026 which found she had a tumor in her brain. Unclear if she was fighting full-blown cancer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-2b58fb16368471eb6c9ee559f3d8966f\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>Even more tragic \u2026 the Monitor says a funding campaign was started for Nikita to get treatment in India, because local doctors were quoted as not having the proper equipment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-e12b1b3d7c834570b37f6911153aea69\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-7c20e5942a39e295d15054d72555aeca\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"42.1313868613\">\n<p>As for her acting career, it appears she only starred in the one Disney flick, \u201cQueen of Katwe,\u201d playing a friend of the actual chess prodigy, Phiona Mutesi. It also featured <strong>Lupita <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lupita-nyongo\/\"><strong>Nyong\u2019o<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>David Oyelowo<\/strong> \u2014 the film\u2019s got a great Rotten Tomatoes score, critics loved it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-dc304ec00772a23edc66e9c582e5ba55\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"29\">\n<p>Nikita was only 15 years old.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5952bcce218791c4e1a1c3dc2322aaa4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \">\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/02\/16\/uganda-disney-actress-nikita-pearl-waligwa-dead-dies-age-15-tumor\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/ugandan-disney-actress-nikita-pearl-waligwa-dead-at-15\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking News Nikita Pearl Waligwa \u2014 a young actress who starred in a Ugandan Disney movie about a chess prodigy \u2014 has reportedly died \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}