Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.
Iweala, Uzodinma. "Growing Up in D.C." Washingtonian, 2018.
In the bizarre situation of South African Apartheid, he had obtained a segregated education, become a lawyer, and became a judge and then the chief justice of the neighboring state of Namibia. However, he had never been able to vote.
Uzodinma Iweala 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. He later released a novel titled Speak No Evil, published in 2018, which highlights the life of a gay Nigerian-American boy named Niru.
