Ishmael Beah is a former child soldier, Unicef Ambassador and bestselling author. His memoir, A Long Way Gone, is an award winning account of his time fighting in Sierra Leone's bloody civil war.
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...
A footnote to the Voice cover story, which probed the veracity of some of Ishmael Beah’s claims, in the celebrated memoir “A Long Way Gone”: Beah describes an incident in which six teens were killed ...
Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, will speak at Clowes Memorial Hall Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. as part of Butler University's Celebration of Diversity ...
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 ...
The Village Voice: Still ‘A Long Way’ From Answers About Ishmael Beah Book
Past participle of go 1. 1. a. Being away from a place; absent or having departed. b. Missing or lost: My watch is gone. 2. a. No longer in existence; not part of the present: "The biggest catastrophe was the lack of wildlife. The great herds were gone" (Tom Clynes). b. No longer available; used up: All the rice is gone. c. No longer alive; dead.
Adjective gone (comparative further gone or farther gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or farthest gone or gonest) Away, having left.