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Uzodinma Iweala

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in Washington D.C., The United States

November 05, 1982

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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. His second book, Our Kind of People: Thoughts on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, will be released in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the summer of 2012. He has also published numerous short stories and essays and has worked in international development on matters of health policy.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 17,315 ratings · 2,514 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Speak No Evil 3.87 avg rating — 8,733 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beasts of No Nation 3.78 avg rating — 6,205 ratings — published 2005 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Between (Penguin African Writers Series) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Uzodinma Iweala (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 4,254 ratings — published 1965 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Glass: A Novel by Alain Mabanckou, Helen Stevenson (Translator), Uzodinma Iweala (Introduction) 3.68 avg rating — 1,628 ratings — published 2005 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anonymous 3.51 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron Project by The New York Times (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Edwidge Danticat 3.58 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2020 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's #26 by Dave Eggers (Editor), John Brandon (Contributor), Amanda Davis (Contributor) 3.47 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Kind of People: A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope 3.57 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of AIDS 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bèsties sense pàtria 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation

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“Are you lost if you know where you're going-- just not how to get there?”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil

tags: direction, lost

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“so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation

tags: beasts-of-no-nation, child-soldiers, childhood, war

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Jan '17 Group Read: African Literature

Beasts of No Nation --Uzodinma Iweala

5 votes 41.7%

Daughters Who Walk This Path -- Yejide Kilanko

4 votes 33.3%

Season of Crimson Blossoms --Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

3 votes 25.0%

Measuring Time -- Helon Habila

0 votes 0.0%

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