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Article: Backtalk with Ishmael Beah.(Interview)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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AT THE AGE OF 12, ISHMAEL Beah lost his village, his family, and his boyhood to the civil war plaguing his native land of Sierra Leone. Captured and forced to participate in the brutality, Beah was eventually rescued and rehabilitated by UNICEF before seeking refuge in the United States. In his book, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $22), Beah gives readers a glimpse into what life was like for him then. Today, the 26-year-old is a college graduate and member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee. Here he talks about reclaiming his life and the children who are still victims of war.
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Former Child Soldier Ishmael Beah Book Signing in New York
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February 16, 2007 ;
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... ... 02-16-2007 Former Child Soldier Ishmael Beah Book Signing in New York Full Size JPG ... FEBRUARY 16: Former child soldier Ishmael Beah, from Sierra Leone, smiles at a signing ... Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Ishmael Beah Copyright (c) 2007 Getty Images
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