Uzodinma Iweala is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and medical doctor and former CEO of The Africa Center. As the CEO of The Africa Center, he was dedicated to promoting new narratives about Africa and its Diaspora. Uzodinma is currently an advisor to UNESCO and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidleberg, Germany, where he explores ideas of “Replacement”.
Uzodinma was the CEO, Editor-In-Chief, and co-Founder of Ventures Africa magazine, a publication that covers the evolving business, policy, culture, and innovation spaces in Africa. His books include Beasts of No Nation, a novel released in 2005 to critical acclaim and adapted into a major motion picture; Our Kind of People, a non-fiction account of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria released in 2012; and Speak No Evil (2018), a novel about a queer first-generation Nigerian-American teen living in Washington, D.C. He is currently working on a forthcoming collection of essays titled United States of Ambivalence. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Paris Review among others. His films have appeared at Sundance and on Al Jazeera. Uzodinma was also the founding CEO of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, an organization that promotes private sector investment in health services and health innovation in Nigeria. He sits on the boards of the International Center for Photography, The World Wildlife Fund and the International Rescue Committee. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Fellow of The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, he lives Heidelberg, Germany.
