People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both,… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Nigeria is a difficult place. It is not a country for the faint of heart. On a good day, when our larger… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix'… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share
