Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, 'A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier'. His first novel, 'Radiance of Tomorrow', was published in January 2014. Wikipedia*
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Ishmael Beah has seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Interview as a Member for the Children's Rights Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Watch. Most common tag: Africa.
Authors Candace Millard, Ishmael Beah, Colonel Gregory Fontenot (Retired), and Whitney Terrell talk about war stories. They…
Ishmael Beah talked about his novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, about life in Sierra Leone following the Civil War that ended in…
Panelists including Ishmael Beah, author of The Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel, Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Bully…
Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier, talked about his forthcoming book, Radiance of Tomorrow. It is a novel set after the civil…