Tag: sierra leone
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March 05, 2007 11:55 AM EST --
It is great to be here on Gather and I thank you all for your good wishes. I have been busy on my book tour but will make it a point to get back here as often as I can.
I have really had some spirited . . .
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February 21, 2007 09:21 AM EST --
There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
I wrote this book because I wanted to share with people, using my own experiences, how children are drawn into brutal wars, how communities and societies collapse during . . .
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March 13, 2007 01:39 PM EDT --
Ishmael Beah, activist and New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, joins us for a live chat in the Starbucks Book Break group. As a child in Sierra Leone during . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
UN peacekeepers arresting . . .
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February 15, 2007 11:51 AM EST --
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder, Ishmael Beah’s chronicle of his life in war-torn Sierra Leone in the ’90s, starts with scenes of his peaceful early childhood. But they don’t . . .
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March 14, 2007 06:56 AM EDT --
Yesterday, Ishmael Beah was speaking at the Starbucks in Davis Square, in Somerville, Massachusetts, to an overflow crowd. It is an amazing experience to see an author in person and to hear them read from . . .
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September 21, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
"A Long Way Gone" (Memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah)
I'm not intending for this to be a book review but more of my emotions and thoughts of a book I just finished moments . . .
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October 27, 2009 06:27 AM EDT --
Living in Sierra Leone is fun and challenging at the same time. In this blog, I try to tell you frankly, how I live day to day in Freetown, Sierra Leone…
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September 14, 2007 09:25 PM EDT --
I read this book in one night. I just couldn't stop reading it.
I found this a moving story of innocence lost and the realities in parts of Africa today.
Beah tells his story with brutal honesty, . . .
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December 06, 2006 02:26 AM EST --
Blood Diamond, the new film from Edward Zwick (Glory and The Last Samurai) is an ambitious film that occasionally teeters but never topples under the weight of its subject. Focusing on fictional . . .
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August 12, 2006 06:36 PM EDT --
Delia Jarrett-Macauley is a writer, academic and broadcaster with a career spanning over 20 years.
Her books include a biography of the Jamaican feminist Una Marson and Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing . . .
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November 28, 2006 09:46 AM EST --
Continued from "Getting Into Character In Africa: The Actors of Blood Diamond"
Director Edward Zwick goes on to note that DiCaprio's portrayal of Danny Archer, a . . .
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May 31, 2006 09:57 AM EDT --
Is Poverty Relevant to Conservation? (Travels in Sierra Leone)
By M.A. Sanjayan, Nature Conservancy lead scientist
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Live Web Audio Chat: Poverty and . . .
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March 20, 2007 01:26 PM EDT --
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder, Ishmael Beah’s chronicle of his life in war-torn Sierra Leone in the ’90s, starts with scenes of his peaceful early childhood. But they don’t . . .
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February 17, 2007 01:23 PM EST --
AMAZING GRACE, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, JOHN NEWTON...ALL PART OF SIERRA LEONE'S HISTORY
On February 27th 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, Bristol Bay productions . . .
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February 27, 2007 03:15 PM EST --
Dear Mister
I was surprised to see that your only response to the article I forwarded you re: Guinea-Bissau ex-PM quits hiding, was " AFRICA!!!!!" Are you Mr Omoboriowo insinuating and . . .
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February 21, 2007 10:05 AM EST --
Author and activist Ishmael Beah shares his thoughts on his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Press play to begin watching the videos, and learn more about Ishmael and the issue of child . . .
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March 05, 2007 11:21 AM EST --
Dear Friend,
I hope that the New Year met you and yours in the best of spirits and in the best of health. I am writing to inform of an exciting opportunity to give young Sierra Leoneans a voice and a . . .
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December 05, 2006 03:20 PM EST --
“When you really look at what happens to a boy who is forced to kill—that is the destruction of a human soul.”
Through the foreign journalist Maddy Bowen's (Jennifer Connelly) . . .
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