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Uzodinma Iweala

1982–

United States

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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.

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