I remember being young when I first heard about the war in Sierra Leone.. it wasn't long after we had finished discussing the start of the Gulf War "Current Events" class. (long before the war actually started in '98). These wars always perplex me, because it's never truly known why they happen. The...
afr-sierra-leone, autobiography-memoir, nonfiction, summer-2012, tbr-busting-2012, fraudio, war, african-continent, published-2007 Read from August 01 to 03, 2012 Not knowing a thing about this country I went searching...From wiki: In 1462, in what is now Sierra Leone was visited by the Portugues...
My colleague happened to be cleaning his cupboard when he found this book he bought when traveling abroad to keep away boredom. Not an avid reader, he couldn't get through the first few pages and gave it to me, in the hope that I would try and make something off it. I must admit, I was in an almost ...
Not knowing a thing about this country I went searching...From wiki: In 1462, in what is now Sierra Leone was visited by the Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Leoa, meaning "Lioness Mountains". Sierra Leone later became an important centre of the transatlantic trade in slaves u...
This is a very important book, though not an easy one to read. Ishmael's style leaves a lot to be desired, and he is especially weak, I feel, when he tries to be philosophical. But he makes up for that with the descriptions of war, to the depravity which human beings can descend to. The fact that...
Amazing story! It does not have the flair or flow of a seasoned author, but then again...he's not a seasoned author. It is a heart wrenching story of surviving horrific conditions that most of us could not even imagine in our worst nightmares. Would not recommend for the faint of heart.
A gripping biography. It's unreal what Beah experienced in Sierra Leone as a child, not to mention the many other children there... I am glad something good has come out of his experiences-- or one can hope with the way my country (or the UN) determines its wars and tragedies, it's never that si...
I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry for what I am about to do. It seems unbelievably curmudgeonly of me to judge this book harshly given its subject matter. But I can't let the deep empathy I feel for this former Sierra Leonean child soldier cloud my judgement of his memoir. I give him five stars - more! ...
Dear Ms. Naomi Campbell,I have always been an ardent aficionado of your work; from your heydays sashaying the YSL runaways along with Linda Evangelista to crooning in George Michael’s Freedom video. Your numerous sexual trysts with celebrated oligarchs and other questionable chaps were highly fascin...
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