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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 .
Apr 11, 2024 · Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
Nov 5, 1982 · Uzodinma Iweala is a writer and medical doctor. His first book, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2005), tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa.
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.
Mar 5, 2018 · Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel, “Speak No Evil,” is about what happens when the wealthy and conservative parents of a track star headed to Harvard find out he’s gay.
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 ...
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.
