Two prominent African writers engaged Korea University students in Seoul in a discussion on Afropolitanism and Black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novelist Ishmael Beah is wise beyond his years. He has no choice but to be — between the ages of 13 and 16, Beah was a soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war. Beah, now 33 and living in Brooklyn, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...