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Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, A Long Way Gone. His novel Radiance of Tomorrow was published in January 2014. His most recent novel Little Family was published in April 2020.
- Sierra Leonean
- Ishmael Beah, 23 November 1980 (age 42), Mogbwemo, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone
- Junior Beah, Ibrahim Beah (siblings), Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (wife)
- A Long Way Gone, Little Family, Radiance of Tomorrow
Nov 11, 2020 · UNICEF. UNICEF/UNI229572/Tremeau. 11 November 2020. “I had no desire to survive because I had lost everything. I thought I would become crazy…”. The voice of Ishmael Beah still trembles when he recalls the horror of being a child in the midst of one of the deadliest modern-day armed conflicts.
Feb 15, 2007 · A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back. There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.
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Jan 9, 2014 · Ishmael Beah was 12 when he was orphaned by Sierra Leone's civil war and recruited as a child soldier. He described the ordeal in his 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone. Now, Beah's debut novel...
Feb 13, 2007 · Ishmael Beah. 4.16. 187,228 ratings12,069 reviews. The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
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Jun 29, 2007 · WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled his home and family following an attack by rebels and began to wander the turbulent West African country in search of safety.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
