Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced ...

Author Ishmael Beah’s heart-wrenching account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the two years he spent as a cocaine-addicted teenage killer achieved instant literary acclaim after its ...

Ishmael Beah was just barely a teenager when his town became engulfed in Sierra Leone's civil war in the mid-1990s. In his 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah describes how, after he lost his ...

A novel that explores what happens after an African civil war Beah%27s memoir%2C %27A Long Way Gone%2C%27 has sold 1.5 million copies NEW YORK – At 33, Ishmael Beah ...

Now a father himself, former child soldier Ishmael Beah recently returned to Sierra Leone to see how UNICEF is strengthening protections for vulnerable children. Author, former child soldier and ...

ASPEN ” When Ishmael Beah was 12, rebel soldiers began to overrun the villages in his home country, Sierra Leone. When his own village was attacked, early in 1993, Beah was separated from his parents ...

When Ishmael Beah was 11, before the rebels reached his village, he thought of Sierra Leone's civil war as something distant and unreal. He was a bright kid, fond of reading. He was in love with ...

Ishmael Beah, a human rights activist and author ... In his book, Beah describes how, as a 12-year-old in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels. When he was 13, he was forced to served in the ...

Sierra Leone is gearing up for crucial presidential ... and political instability. However, Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier and author, turned human rights activist told CNN the youth are ...