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Uzodinma Iweala // ⓘ (born November 5) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. His debut novel , Beasts of No Nation , is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard .
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Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by the Nigerian-American author Uzodinma Iweala, that takes its title from Fela Kuti's 1989 album of the same name. The book won the 2005 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. It was adapted as a movie in 2015.
Jul 7, 2020 · Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian-American writer, a medical doctor and the chief executive of the Africa Center. He is the author of “Beasts of No Nation,” “Our Kind of People” and “Speak ...
Feb 26, 2018 · Uzodinma Iweala’s first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” published in 2005, gave its readers imagined access to the experience of child soldiers in West Africa.
Uzodinma Iweala, the 36-year-old CEO of the Africa Center, a culture and policy institution in New York City, talks about how writing the novel Beasts of No Nation (which was later turned into a Netflix film) propelled his life and career to unexpected places.
Uzodinma Iweala is a medical doctor, filmmaker, and author of Beasts of No Nation and Speak No Evil. He is also the CEO of The Africa Center, a platform for promoting a new narrative about Africa and its diaspora.
