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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation: A Novel Uzodinma Iweala ebook
ISBN: 0060798688, 9780061466717
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Page: 156
Format: pdf

Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses," he writes, "They are also people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts." Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. Iweala is also the author of Beasts of No Nation, a novel about African child soldiers which resulted in his selection as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Writer Uzodinma Iweala's second book, "Our Kind of People," is about HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Bate Besong is an acclaimed playwright of Anglophone extraction whose unsettling play BEASTS OF NO NATION (1991) earned him a stint in the dungeons of la République du Cameroun. Uzodinma Iweala reads from his critically acclaimed debut novel Beasts of No Nation, which tells the story of Agu, a child soldier fighting in a civil war in an unnamed west African country. Cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. The fact that Cameroon under Ahidjo was a de facto police state characterized by arbitrary arrests and detention, press censorship and wanton abuse of human rights is well documented in Joseph Richard's book (1978). The intent of BATE BESONG: WHY THE .. The first book by Iweala was a much-praised novel about child soldiering, Beasts of No Nation.