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, a former ...

Ishmael Beah defends his memoir and goes home to Sierra Leone. Aug. 5, 2008 — -- Ishmael Beah wears the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war as his own. In what was once the poorest country on earth ...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Sudan this week to meet with children and families affected by the conflict that has devastated the country for the past 19 months. During his ...

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. That all ...

Former child soldier's story under fire over his account of war. Jan. 25, 2008 — -- The book, gripping in its tale of a drug-addicted child soldier who lost his family in war-torn Sierra Leone, ...

The African writer Ishmael Beah, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir "A Long Way Gone," offers a novel of young people struggling to survive on the outskirts of society. Kpindi brushed ...

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 ...

Who doesn't feel humbled by the hopefulness of those who have suffered most? The unbowed spirit of Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel or young Malala Yousafzai rebukes our lazy cynicism and reminds us that ...

A footnote to the Voice cover story, which probed the veracity of some of Ishmael Beah’s claims, in the celebrated memoir “A Long Way Gone”: Beah describes an incident in which six teens were killed ...

If they are authentic, the school records The Australian describes seem to bolster the paper’s contention that the timeline Mr. Beah presents in his book is inaccurate. Previously, the paper claimed ...

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