" Diang'a is itself like a video game – trapped in an unhappy place by forces beyond his control, he fought his way out! And a console was his salvation.
"They say video games are violent, but for me, that is not the case. I was escaping from this reality that I was in now," he says. But school was another story. He says it was hard to keep his uniform clean, and teachers called him dirty and would beat him. And if he came home from school late, his mother would be mad, suspecting that he'd stopped to play video games .
A childhood friend, Mohammed Suleiman, says that Brian's success"made us feel proud that Kibera's brand was being lifted positively – that, yes, we can also do great things."