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Uzodinma Iweala
Nigerian-American writer
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.
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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]
Family and education
Born and raised in the U.S.
with American nationality, Iweala is the son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. He attended S