Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) 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. 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'', 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.

Iweala is the former CEO of The Africa Center in Harlem, New York. He is currently a fellow at the Katë Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg and an Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and advisor at UNSECO. Provided by Wikipedia