About+the+Author

=Ishmael Beah....not many people can say that they have expirienced what he went through. Fewer can say that they survived and were strong enough to relive all of those event in the writing of a mind-opening book. Beah not only captures but captivates his readers and gives them a first person perspective into the danger and trajedy that is the african revolution. Showing first hand the trivialites and disgusting acts done upon thousands of innocent human beings, man or women, young and old, helpless and innocent. Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980 and moved to the U.S. in 1998. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of Human Rights Watch Children’s Division Advisory Committee, and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. Beah’s writing has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City. = ==