Beasts of No Nation, the debut novel of MMUF fellow Uzodinma Iweala (Harvard '04), will be adapted into a film starring Idris Elba and directed by Cary Fukunaga. Beasts of No Nation, which was published in 2005 and became a New York Times bestseller, tells the story of Agu, a young boy who is forced to become a child soldier during a period of civil war in his unnamed West African homeland. Read more about the film adaptation here.