From Child Soldier to NY Times Best-Selling Author & UNICEF’s First Advocate for Children Affected by War 

Ishmael Beah was recruited as a child soldier to fight in the Sierra Leone Civil War when he was thirteen years old. This talk explores how he survived the brutality of the war to become the renowned author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and UNICEF’s First Advocate for Children Affected by War in 2007. The Washington Post writes that “Everyone in the world should read [Beah’s memoir] to learn about the world and what it means to be human.”

Speaker
Ishmael Beah, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Children Affected by War; Former Child Soldier

Hosted by
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

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