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Ishmael Beah

Born

in Mogbwemo, Sierra Leone

November 23, 1980

Website

http://www.alongwaygone.com

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Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science.

He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, and many other NGO panels on children affected by the war. His work has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 194,750 ratings · 13,144 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 188,393 ratings — published 2007 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radiance of Tomorrow 3.86 avg rating — 4,584 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Family 3.85 avg rating — 1,443 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldies by Roméo Dallaire, Ishmael Beah (Foreword), Ben Weeks (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,294 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Door to Tamba: A Short Story by Ishmael Beah, Maduka Steady (Narrator) 3.80 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International (Editor), Desmond Tutu (Foreword), Vered Cohen-Barzilay (Foreword) 3.66 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Long Way Gone - Teacher's Guide: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words by Lee T Bycel, Ishmael Beah (Foreword), Dona Kopol Bonick (Photographer) 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer Reynolds (Editor), George Saunders (Foreword) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parabola: Spring 2009 (Volume 24, Number 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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After his electrifying memoir, A Long Way Gone, about his time as a child soldier, the Sierra Leonean writer looks at life after war in his new...

Polls

Which book would you like to read for Western Africa in Nov/Dec 2018.
(Notice one of the books is not translated - so only vote for it, if you would like to read it in the French original version!)

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

18 votes, 48.6%

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

9 votes, 24.3%

This House is Not for Sale by E.C. Osondu

7 votes, 18.9%

Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane

3 votes, 8.1%

[Only in French!] De purs hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

0 votes, 0.0%

37 total votes

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