Beasts of No Nation (2006)

Uzodinma Iweala

The cover of the book 'Beasts of No Nation'

This book opens with the epigraphs:

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I was able to expel from my mind all human hope. On every form of joy, in order to strangle it, I pounced stealthily like a wild animal.

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— Arthur Rimbaud

"

This uprising will bring out the beast in us.

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— Fela Kuti