I can’t recall my college convocation speaker, but chances are, UVM’s Class of 2011 will theirs. At 26, Ishmael Beah was like a friendly older brother rather than the typical aging dignitary, and the ...

To be a boy forced to bear arms in an adult conflict is to be a prisoner of war of a terrible kind. Ishmael Beah, 26, went through that extraordinarily horrific struggle as a child in Sierra Leone. He ...

Growing up in a fishing village in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah passed the time dancing to Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Heavy D and the Boyz, memorizing the lyrics to compete in local talent shows. That all ...

How did it feel to kill someone? Did you ever shoot other children? How was your family murdered? The questions came fast at Ishmael Beah on Friday as he stood before a group of South Broward High ...

Second, thanks for putting Ishmael Beah’s book in such a rich context. I got a sense from what you wrote about Johnny Mad Dog and Beasts of No Nation that their authors didn’t do as well with that ...

In this week’s Voice cover story, “Boy Soldier of Fortune,” Graham Rayman examines the still-simmering controversy surrounding inconsistencies in “Long Way Gone,” Ishmael Beah’s celebrated memoir of ...

Now a father himself, former child soldier Ishmael Beah recently returned to Sierra Leone to see how UNICEF is strengthening protections for vulnerable children. Author, former child soldier and ...