Uzodinma Iweala

Author and CEO, The Africa Center. Uzodinma Iweala is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and medical doctor. He is the CEO of The Africa Center in New York, promoting a new narrative about Africa and its diaspora through a focus on culture, policy and business. Uzodinma Iweala is the Co-Founder of Ventures Africa Magazine, a publication that covers business, policy, culture and innovation spaces in Africa. He has written three books: Beasts of No Nation (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005), a novel also adapted into a major motion picture; Our Kind of People (Harper, 2012), a non-fiction account of HIV/ AIDS in Nigeria; and Speak No Evil (John Murray, 2018), a novel about Washington, D.C.