As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

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 ...

Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” was hard to ignore and impossible to forget. News reports about children conscripted into Sierra Leone’s civil war had shocked the world, but ...

Ishmael Beah, author of the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," closes out the 2008-09 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Crouse-Hinds Concert ...

Ishmael Beah, formerly of Sierra Leone and author of the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," talks to the students and staff at Brunel University in London, January 30, 2008.

After best-selling memoir, Ishmael Beah turns to fiction. ... A Long Way Gone, about being forced into becoming a "boy soldier" in Sierra Leone's vicious civil war 20 years ago.

Former child soldier Ishmael Beah talks about his book, A Long Way Gone. Marcia Franklin talks with Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, who writes about his harrowing ...

Ishmael Beah is on a tour of college campuses, talking about his life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone and the value of education. Beah's memoir "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier has ...

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.

Ishmael Beah, 26, recalls how shooting someone was 'as easy as drinking a glass of water' at meeting aiming to rehabilitate child soldiers and single out nations where they are recruited.

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.