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...focus on something he loved. “My last year at Harvard made going to Harvard really, really worth it, which corresponded to writing a thesis,” Iweala says. During his junior year, Iweala had had the chance to meet former child soldier China Keitetsi when she came to give a talk to the Harvard African Students Association. While Iweala had already written a rough short story about a child soldier, Keitetsi inspired him to write something larger in scope. Iweala decided to set his novel in a fictional country in West Africa, but he felt that...
...major draw for the judges. “Of course it’s a risk—he has published only one short book—but we thought it worth taking,” Jack wrote. Iweala’s novel was inspired in part by China Keitetsi, a Ugandan child soldier who addressed the Harvard African Students Association in Iweala’s junior year, according to a Crimson article. The book began as Iweala’s creative thesis and has since been translated into 11 languages and won numerous awards, including the Barnes & Noble Discover...
...chuckle at himself. In response to his acclaim, Iweala told The Crimson yesterday, “The best thing is that you know people are interested in what you have to say.” One of Iweala’s most important inspirations for the novel was China Keitetsi, a child soldier from Uganda who addressed the Harvard African Students Association during Iweala’s junior year, he said. He tried to work on the story in Nigeria the following summer, but he said he found that he needed distance from the country in order to write about...
...phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child soldiers during his senior year in high school when he read an article about Sierra Leone’s conflicts, which inspired a short story. In 2002, as president of the Harvard African Students Association, he invited China Keitetsi, a former member of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in Uganda and former child soldier, to speak, which only increased his interest. “I got the opportunity to speak to her one-on-one,” he says, “and when I told her that...
Tomorrow, Keitetsi will be speaking at the United Nations about the effects of child soldiering...