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 ...

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 ...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Sudan this week to meet with children and families affected by the conflict that has devastated the country for the past 19 months. During his ...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah has concluded a visit to his native Sierra Leone on the commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ishmael, a former ...

Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” was hard to ignore and impossible to forget. News reports about children conscripted into Sierra Leone’s civil war had shocked the world, but then came ...

If they are authentic, the school records The Australian describes seem to bolster the paper’s contention that the timeline Mr. Beah presents in his book is inaccurate. Previously, the paper claimed ...

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 ...

Now a father himself, former child soldier Ishmael Beah recently returned to Sierra Leone to see how UNICEF is strengthening protections for vulnerable children. Author, former child soldier and ...

Riverhead Books has acquired two new books from A Long Way Gone author Ishmael Beah, best known for his harrowing memoir about his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, EW announces exclusively.

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - On Saturday evening, the Northwest Regional Office of UNICEF USA hosted the inaugural UNICEF Gala San Francisco at the iconic Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The event, featuring a special ...

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 ...

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 ...