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Musa Okwonga
British author (born 1979) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Musa Okwonga (born 11 October 1979)[1][2] is a British author, podcaster, and musician.[1][3][4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.[5]
Early life and education
Okwonga's parents, medical students, fled Uganda under Idi Amin's dictatorship and settled in the UK.[1] He is the eldest of four children who were all brought up by their mother after their father died.[1] Okwonga's father was killed aged 40 in a helicopter crash.[6] His mother worked as a doctor.[6]
Between 1993 and 1998, Okwonga attended Eton College,[2] where he received a scholarship towards his fees.[6] In 1998, he matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, reading Jurisprudence for three years.[1]
Okwonga has also worked as a football journalist and the co-host of Stadio, a football podcast on The Ringer podcast network, Stadio.[7] Since 2014, he has resided in Berlin, Germany.
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Publications
- One of Them: An Eton College Memoir, Unbound, 2021, ISBN 9781783529681
- In The End, It Was All About Love, Rough Trade Books, 2021, ISBN 9781912722976
- Raheem Sterling (Football Legends #1), Scholastic, 2020, ISBN 9781407198422
- "The Ungrateful Country", in The Good Immigrant (ed. Nikesh Shukla), 2016, ISBN 9781783523955
- Will You Manage? The Necessary Skills to Be a Great Gaffer, Serpent's Tail, 2010, ISBN 9781846687242
- A Cultured Left Foot, Duckworth overlook, 2007, ISBN 9780715637630
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References
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