American - Author | November 5, 1982 -
Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
Uzodinma Iweala
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
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U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
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Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.
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Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.
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For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.
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