NEW YORK (AP) - January 30, 2008 The 27-year-old Beah, whose "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" has nearly 700,000 copies in print, has written that he spent more than two years in the ...

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, ...

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 sold ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier, human rights activist and best selling author will sign his ...

ASPEN ” When Ishmael Beah was 12, rebel soldiers began to overrun the villages in his home country, Sierra Leone. When his own village was attacked, early in 1993, Beah was separated from his parents ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ishmael Beah, a human rights activist and author of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," will give a book talk at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at Columbus State University. Beah's talk will ...

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 ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Chigozie Obioma LITTLE FAMILY By Ishmael Beah “Little Family” begins with an intriguing prologue ...