2007-04-01T20:00:28-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c43/20070401195948001.jpgIshmael Beah tells why he named his book " A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy ...

As promised in today's Post-Standard, here's more from my recent interview with Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of the best-selling memoir, A Long Way Gone, who speaks Tuesday in ...

Ishmael Beah’s publisher wouldn’t allow the Voice to interview him, so the Voice sought out the author himself last week at a public appearance in Manhattan. Beah, the elusive author of a ...

To be a boy forced to bear arms in an adult conflict is to be a prisoner of war of a terrible kind. Ishmael Beah, 26, went through that extraordinarily horrific struggle as a child in Sierra Leone. He ...

Ishmael Beah was just barely a teenager when his town became engulfed in Sierra Leone's civil war in the mid-1990s. In his 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah describes how, after he lost his parents ...

Ishmael Beah, the former boy soldier in Sierra Leone, has found himself fighting a new adversary in recent weeks. The newspaper The Australian News, deploying reporters and editors on four continents, ...