A Long Way Gone Reading Resources

General

• A Long Way Gone: Reader's Guide
• A Long Way Gone Official Website
• Publisher's Website
• Multimedia of Ishmael Beah
• A Long Way Gone: News and Media
• Publisher's Reading Group Guide
• YouTube: Ishmael Beah speaks at Texas Christian University, April 25, 2008
• "The Fog of Memoir: The Feud over the Truthfulness of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone" - Slate, March 6, 2008
• "When Good Comes from Bad", essay by Ishmael Beah, August 2000
• Transcript of an Interview with Ishmael Beah - Powell's Bookstore, February 12, 2007

Child Soldiering Resources

• Human Rights Watch: Facts about Child Soldiers
• Child Soldiers Global Report: 2008
• UN: Children and Armed Conflict
• YouTube: "Eye to Eye", CBS News ft. Ishmael Beah
• United Movement to End Child Soldiering (UMECS)
• War Child International Network

Sierra Leone Information and Resources

• US Department of State: Background Note: Sierra Leone
• CIA: The World Factbook: Sierra Leone
• The Norweigan Council for Africa
• The Sierra Leone Web
• BBC: Timeline: Sierra Leone
• YouTube: "The Forgotten War: The Sierra Leone War"

Related Organizations and Foundations

• The Ishmael Beah Foundation
• Child Voice International
• Invisible Children
• Amnesty International: Sierra Leone Human Rights
• Children of Soldiers Fund
• Child Soldiers International
• The Nobelity Project
• International Rescue Committee
• Free the Children: Children Helping Children through Education
• Gua Africa