
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