Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga (born 1979 in London ) is a British-Ugandan writer and musician.

Life

Musa Okwonga's parents fled the Idi Amin's terror regime to Great Britain in 1971/72 , where they completed medical training. Musa is the oldest of four children and grew up in West Drayton . Okwonga's father retired as a military doctor in 1983 and died in a helicopter crash along with rebel leader David Oyite Ojok . Okwanga was in Uganda at his funeral and only once again in 2000. Okwanga attended Eton College on a half scholarship. He studied law at St John's College , Oxford .

Okwanga writes numerous essays and commentaries on culture, racism, gender, music, sport, politics and technology in the press . His texts have appeared in The Economist , The Guardian , The Independent , The New Statesman and The New York Times , but also in ZEIT and TAZ . He has published two books on football, his first volume of poetry ( Eating Roses For Dinner ) was published in 2015.

He has lived in Berlin-Friedrichshain since 2014 .

Fonts (selection)

• A cultured left foot. The eleven elements of footballing greatness. Duckworth, London 2007 ISBN 978-0715636909 .
• Will you manage? The necessary skills to be a great gawker. Serpent's Tail, London 2010.
• Men of all origins, stand by the women! Essay on the Cologne Incidents , in: Literarian World , January 8, 2016
• Brexit: Great Britain has to think big again , in: zeit.de March 10, 2019 (guest post)

literature

• "There are many myths about black men." Jacinta Nandi in conversation with the writer, blogger and musician Musa Okwonga, about Berlin , Trump and Brexit , in Konkret , H. 5, 2017, pp. 47-49

Web links

• Literature by and about Musa Okwonga in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Musa Okwonga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Musa Okwonga , website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Gilmour: Always the outsider . Interview, in: Financial Times , June 4, 2016, H&H p. 1
2. ↑ Portrait of the author at DIE ZEIT.