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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beah felt this acceptance in his division of child soldiers and fought with the group for two years before eventually being rescued by UNICEF. He was taken to a rehab center in the Sierra Leone ...

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 ...

The writer Ishmael Beah moved back to Africa last fall, but not to Sierra Leone, the country where - as he recounts in his best-selling memoir “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” - he ...

I understand the need to draw attention to the international plight of children used as carriers, sex slaves, and soldiers but Sierra Leone badly needs Ishmael Beah to represent us too. In a country ...

Ishmael Beah, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” will discuss his experiences during the decadelong civil war in Sierra Leone and the ...