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Ishmael Beah

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born

November 23, 1980 in Sierra Leone

gender

male

website

www.alongwaygone.com

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History

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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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Books by Ishmael Beah

Average rating: 4.08 · 20763 ratings · 4443 reviews · 4 distinct works · Find books in swap

	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 408 avg rating — 20758 ratings — published 2007 — 44 editions	My rating:
	War and children 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Roméo Dallaire, Ishmael Beah (Introduction) 385 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Fambul Tok by Benedict Sannoh, Ishmael Beah (Afterword), John Caulker (Contributor), Libby Hoffman (Contributor), Sara Terry (Contributor) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Ishmael Beah

"We must strive to be like the moon.' An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often... the adage served to remind people to always be on their best behavior and to be good to others. [S]he said that people complain when there is too much sun and it gets unbearably hot, and also when it rains too much or when it is cold. But, no one grumbles when the moon shines. Everyone becomes happy and appreciates the moon in their own special way. Children watch their shadows and play in its light, people gather at the square to tell stories and dance through the night. A lot of happy things happen when the moon shines. These are some of the reasons why we should want to be like the moon."
— Ishmael Beah