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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 describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
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] His most recent novel Little Family was published in April 2020. [4]
Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier: Nominee [3] 2009 David Glenn Brown: Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion: Winner [4] [5] 2010 Reginald Dwayne Betts: A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison: Winner [6] BeNeca Ward: 3rd Generation Country: Nominee [7] Attica ...
Sarah Crichton Books published authors such as Cathleen Schine, David Finkel, Matthew Quick, John Leland, Brigid Schulte, and Ishmael Beah whose memoir of his life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, became an international bestseller. [17]
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]
Mattru Hospital was founded as a dispensary in 1950 by missionary nurses from the United Brethren in Christ (UBC). By 1959 the dispensary had become a 15-bed hospital. The hospital continued to grow in capacity during the 1960s and 1970s, and by 1981 Mattru Hospital had grown to 69 beds, with pediatrics, obstetrics, surgical, and outpatient units, and x-ray and laboratory facilities.
James' two other most recent posts are also from his and Kirkconnell's trip to London, including a roundup of the "best matcha lattes" in the city, a visit to a burger spot and dinner at a ...
In the novel Beasts of No Nation (2005) and its 2015 film adaptation, brown-brown is used by many of the child soldiers and the Commandant.; Ishmael Beah describes using brown-brown, cocaine, and other drugs while he was a child soldier in Sierra Leone, in his memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007).