Ishmael Beah with his adopted mother Larua Simmons
Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone, speaks at Ardrey Auditorium in Arizona
Ishmael Beach grew up in Mattru Jong Sierra Leone
Ishmael Beah was born on November 23, 1980 in Sierra Leone Reads his memoir at a Manhattan Starbucks
Ishmael Beah and guest attend 2011 UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 29, 2011 in New York City. He also received 2011 Health & Human Rights Award
In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science.
Ishmael Beah (center front), C. 1993 in Sierra Leone, was a child soldier.
Ishmael Beah attended the United Nations international High School
Ishmael Beah meet with STF and discussed his childhood in Sierra Leone and the onset of the civil war that pushed him to join the army as a young boy.