Education
Harvard University; Columbia University.
Harvard University; Columbia University.
His debut novel, Beasts of Number Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. lieutenant 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.
The son of Doctor Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended Saint Albans School in Washington District of Columbia and later Harvard College with an Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language, in 2004.
While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004. Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003.
And the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2011 and is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
