Musa Okwonga

British author (born 1979)

Musa Okwonga
Born	(1979-10-11) 11 October 1979 (age 44) London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author, podcaster
Language	English
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford (BA)

Musa Okwonga (born 11 October 1979)^[1]^[2] is a British author, podcaster, and musician.^[1]^[3]^[4]

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.^[5] His mother worked as a doctor.^[5]

Between 1993 and 1998, Okwonga attended Eton College,^[2] where he received a scholarship towards his fees.^[5] 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.^[6] Since 2014, he has resided in Berlin, Germany.

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Gilmour, Alexander (2 June 2016). "Writer Musa Okwonga in Berlin where 'outsiders feel at home'". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Self, John (14 April 2021). "The school that rules Britain". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2021. Also: he shares his birthday (11 October) with the school's founding date.
^ "Musa Okwonga: 'Berlin is like a wormhole, flat yet so much depth.'". Exceptional Alien. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ Gopalakrishnan, Manasi (19 January 2021). "Musa Okwonga: Soul-searching as a Black man in Berlin". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Shariatmadari, David (10 April 2021). "Musa Okwonga: 'Boys don't learn shamelessness at Eton, it is where they perfect it'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ "Stadio - The Ringer".