Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I think ‘Beasts of No Nation’ is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
When you relate to a disease, you’re afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it’s the worst thing that ever happened. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
In my senior year of high school, I read an article in ‘Newsweek’ about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock – this was happening in the region where I’m from, and people don’t know about it. I wanted to understand. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
