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Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) [1] is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, A Long Way Gone. [2] His novel Radiance of Tomorrow was published in January 2014. [ 3 ]
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. [1]
The book contains a foreword by Ishmael Beah, an ex child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. It was a finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 2011. [2]
This is a list of people from Sierra Leone who have articles on Wikipedia, or are unambiguously qualified for one.. Okere Adams; John Akar; Roda Antar; George Banda-Thomas; Alimamy Pallo Bangura
Ishmael Beah (born 1980), child soldier and memoirist; Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands (see also Liberia) Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator [Killam & Rowe] Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana [Killam & Rowe]
In his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier, Ishmael Beah chronicles his life during the conflict in Sierra Leone. [46] In Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism anthropologist David M. Rosen discusses the murders, rapes, tortures, and thousands of amputations committed by the RUF Small Boys Unit. [47]
Ishmael Beah: Featured discussion of Beah's book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. April 8, 2007: Zbigniew Brzezinski: Featured discussion of Brzezinski's book Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. April 15, 2007: Gen. Michael Hayden: April 22, 2007: David Stewart
Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was a bestseller and a Starbucks-featured book in 2007. [31] [32] Faber and Faber Inc. published a backlist of drama and books on the arts, entertainment, music, pop culture, cultural criticism, and the media.