UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah has concluded a visit to his native Sierra Leone on the commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ishmael ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in a fishing village in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah passed the time dancing to Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Heavy D and the Boyz, memorizing the lyrics to compete in local talent shows.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As promised in today's Post-Standard, here's more from my recent interview with Ishmael Beah ... so I wrote about pre-war Sierra Leone, how I played as a child, having to make my own toys and ...

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 ...