Ishmael Beah Speaks to the World about His Trials as a Boy Soldier and His Ultimate Rehabilitation

In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.

Follow the links on alongwaygone.com to watch him speak about his motivation to write the book and the horrors that continue against child and human rights across the globe.