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Uzodinma Iweala // ⓘ (born November 5, 1982) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor.[1] His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005 and adapted as an award-winning film in 2015, was mentioned by Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[2] and Rolling Stone. In 2012, he released the non-fiction book Our Kind of People, about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. He later released a novel titled Speak No Evil, published in 2018, which highlights the life of a gay Nigerian-American boy named Niru.[3]
Iweala is currently the CEO of The Africa Center in Harlem, New York.[4]
- ^ "Uzodinma Iweala | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University". Radcliffe.harvard.edu. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
- ^ "The Sunday Times". The Sunday Times. May 5, 2013. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (March 5, 2018). "A Young Man of Strict Nigerian-American Parents Comes of Age While Coming Out". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala – on science, power, and race". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. March 22, 2020.