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Fresh Air, Ishmael Beah, February 21, 2007
- Length: 51 mins
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Summary
Writer Ishmael Beah, on this edition of Fresh Air. Beah has written a new memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK47 at the age of 12, pumped up by drugs, and forced to kill or be killed. When he was 15 UNICEF took him to a rehabilitation center, and later he was adopted by an American woman and brought to the United States where he attended high school and graduated from Oberlin College. His memoir is A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Then, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart. [Broadcast Date: February 21, 2007]
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