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Ishmael Beah Biography

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.

It was not easy, and Beah said in an interview with Jon Stewart that adjusting to civilized life in Freetown was more difficult than when he.

It was not easy, and Beah said in an interview with Jon Stewart that adjusting to civilized life in Freetown was more difficult than when he.

Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone tells about his experiences on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart": ABOUT ISHMAEL BEAH.

American TV host Jon Stewart said in an interview that reading the book had made his heart hurt.

In his memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah recounted his brutal life as a child soldier and how he got from Sierra Leone to Oberlin College by way.

The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science.

He is the author of Tomorrow and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Beah 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.

Controversy
It was claimed that there was some inaccuracy in the events mentioned in Beah's book A Long Way Gone, mainly that Beah became a soldier in 199