# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uzodinma-iweala
# Generated: 2026-09-06T21:35:02.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uzodinma-iweala"
name: "Uzodinma Iweala"
slug: "uzodinma-iweala"
description: "Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work 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. In 2012, he released the non-fiction book Our Kind of People, about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. He later released a novel titled Speak No Evil, published in 2018, which highlights the life of a gay Nigerian-American boy named Niru."
tagline: "Nigerian-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iweala_FfmBuchmesse171008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             6.925241668174484
  historical:           12.60148133333333
  currentAttention:     37.21298495645289
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/uiweala1"
    handle:    "uiweala1"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/uzodinma-iweala-58900852/"
    handle:    "uzodinma-iweala-58900852"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3303697/"
    handle:    "nm3303697"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "اوزودينما ايويالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82%D5%A6%D5%B8%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B4%D5%A1_%D4%BB%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A1"
    title: "Ուզոդինմա Իվեալա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B0"
    title: "Ивеала, Узодинма"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328771"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3218445"
    title: "Uzodinma Iweala"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump