Ishmael Beah

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Ishmael Beah is his full name. He is a Sierra Leonean author. The title of the biography book is A Long Way Gone . The author is Ishmael Beah. Ishmael was born November 23, 1980. Ishmael was born in Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. He is important because of his biography, The most important hero, throughout this book, is Ishmael Beah. In this book, Ishmael Beah says many things that show how he really is a hero. Ishmael died at age 137 and the date was the June 25 2017. When he was 16 he almost died in a desert with his mother before an angel appeared and showed them a well, the angel also said that he would become a great nation. In the early 1990s, Sierra Leone was divided by civil war. Ishmael Beah was only 13-years-old in 1993 when he was taken into the Sierra Leone army, given drugs, an AK-47 and …show more content…

After Beah’s rehabilitation, he was able to move to the United States where he was adopted and attended high school in New York City. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in political science. Since moving to the United States, Beah has spoken on numerous panels and joined Human Rights Watch. Beah’s books, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier was published in 2007.Beah said that he was motivated to write the book to help readers comprehend the humanity and recognize the potential of child soldiers. “(The army) uses children because they can corrupt them pretty easily, especially after they have lost everything that is dear to them,” Beah said. “So this is a very serious issue, which is one of the reasons I wrote this book. So that people can understand how (corruption) comes about, but more importantly, so that people can understand that it is possible to help these children regain their lives again.” 1 Son of Abraham and Hagar; ancestor of 12 tribes in N Arabia. Through Sara's

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