Uzodinma Iweala

Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they…

— Uzodinma Iweala

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the…

— Uzodinma Iweala

'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like…

— Uzodinma Iweala

As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.

— Uzodinma Iweala

When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of…

— Uzodinma Iweala

The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because -…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see…

— Uzodinma Iweala

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

— Uzodinma Iweala

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

— Uzodinma Iweala

D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,'…

— Uzodinma Iweala

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you…

— Uzodinma Iweala

In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that…

— Uzodinma Iweala