| LC control no. | nb2009005628 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Okwonga, Musa |
| Associated country | England Great Britain Germany |
| Associated place | Uganda |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1979-10-11 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Affiliation | St. John's College (University of Oxford) Eton College |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Sportswriters Musicians Podcasters |
| Found in | A cultured left foot, 2007: t.p. (Musa Okwonga) jkt. (practises law & football; aged 27, lives in South London) In the end, it was all about love, 2021: title page (Musa Okwonga) last page (writer, broadcaster and musician; co-host of the Stadio football podcast; he has published one collection of poetry and three books about football, the first of which, A Cultured Left Foot, was nominated for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award; his work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, Byline Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, The Ringer, and elsewhere; he lives in Berlin) Wikipedia, August 20, 2024 (Musa Okwonga; born 11 October 1979, London, United Kingdom; British author, podcaster, and musician; his parents, who were medical students, fled Uganda under Idi Amin's dictatorship and settled in the United Kingdom; his father was killed in a helicopter crash at age 40; his mother worked as a doctor; Okwonga attended Eton College 1993-1998, and read jurisprudence at St John's College, Oxford, 1993-1998; he has worked as a football journalist and co-host of Stadio, a football podcast on The Ringer podcast network, Stadio; lives in Berlin, Germany since 2014) DW In Focus, Culture, Soul-searching as a Black man in Berlin, 01/19/2021, viewed August 20, 2024 (Ugandan-British writer Musa Okwonga; son of Ugandan doctors who settled in the UK in the 1970s; raised by his mother and, at 11, won a scholarshiop to visit an elite boy's prep school, Sunningdale; his experience there and then at Eton College and Oxford left him with the feeling that, as a Black person, he needed to achieve more to be accepted in British society; chose to try living in Berlin for a while, due to his training in law and knowledge of German; his father, a military surgeon with the resistance, died in a revolution against Idi Amin in Uganda at age 40) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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