Ishmael Beah

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers ha...

A Novel: When Ishmael Beah?s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone?s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that ?everyone in the world should read? (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called ?arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,? has retur...