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Musa Okwonga (born 11 October 1979)cite-ref-0-1-0[1]cite-ref-1-2-0[2] is a British author, podcaster, and musician.cite-ref-0-1-1[1]cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-4[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.cite-ref-5[5]

• Early life and education

• Publications

• References

Okwonga's parents, medical students, fled Uganda under Idi Amin's dictatorship and settled in the UK.cite-ref-0-1-2[1] He is the eldest of four children who were all brought up by their mother after their father died.cite-ref-0-1-3[1] Okwonga's father was killed aged 40 in a helicopter crash.cite-ref-2-6-0[6] His mother worked as a doctor.cite-ref-2-6-1[6]

Between 1993 and 1998, Okwonga attended Eton College,cite-ref-1-2-1[2] where he received a scholarship towards his fees.cite-ref-2-6-2[6] In 1998, he matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, reading Jurisprudence for three years.cite-ref-0-1-4[1]

Okwonga has also worked as a football journalist and the co-host of Stadio, a football podcast on The Ringer podcast network, Stadio.cite-ref-7[7] Since 2014, he has resided in Berlin, Germany.

• 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

cite-note-0-11. ↑ citerefgilmour2016Gilmour, Alexander (2 June 2016). "Writer Musa Okwonga in Berlin where 'outsiders feel at home'". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 April 2021.

cite-note-1-22. ↑ citerefself2021Self, 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.

cite-note-33. ↑ "Musa Okwonga: 'Berlin is like a wormhole, flat yet so much depth.'". Exceptional Alien. Retrieved 15 April 2021.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefgopalakrishnan2021Gopalakrishnan, Manasi (19 January 2021). "Musa Okwonga: Soul-searching as a Black man in Berlin". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 15 April 2021.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Okwonga, Musa". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2025.

cite-note-2-66. ↑ citerefshariatmadari2021Shariatmadari, 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.

cite-note-77. ↑ "Stadio - The Ringer".