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As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child? Ishmael Beah was just 13 when war reached his village in Sierra Leone and he was made to flee.
When Ishmael Beah was 13 he was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone. He was rescued and slowly rehabilitated. But what does it take to turn a soldier back into a child? Show more As a boy ...
It’s been nearly three decades since Ishmael Beah was recruited as a child soldier during Sierra Leone’s long and brutal civil war, and 15 years since his book about it became an international ...
Freetown - Author Ishmael Beah has disputed newspaper reports that the best-selling memoir of his time as a child soldier contained inconsistencies, during an interview marking his first return to ...
When Ishmael Beah was 13, he was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone. He was rescued and slowly rehabilitated. But what does it take to turn a soldier back into a child? Show more Ishmael Beah ...
Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. April 28, 2020 Review by Ron Charles (Riverhead Books) ...
Novelist and UNICEF ambassador Ishmael Beah is the author of A Long Way Gone, a memoir about serving as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In his new novel, Little Family, five young people create a ...
The discussion event Monday evening (February 10) featured Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was injured and captured in conflict in Afghanistan at age 15 and spent 10 years in detainment at Guantanamo ...