A LONG WAY GONE

HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE

• Sierra Leone is a small country in Western Africa that was thrown into a civil war in the 90s.
• Portuguese explorers land in what is now Freetown. They named the place Serra lyoa, meaning lion mountains.
• European traders regularly stopped there to trade cloth and metal things for other material goods and a few slaves

HISTORY OF ISHMEAL BEAH

• Born in 1980
• Moved to u.s. in 1998
• Went through rehabilitation

HISTORY OF ISHMAEL BEAH

• Graduated from Oberlin College in 2004
• Member of H.R.W.C.R.D.A.C.
• Spoken before the u.n., the
• council on foreign relations,

HISTORY OF ISHMAEL BEAH

• the Center for Emerging Threats and
• Opportunities and many other NGO panels
• for children affected by war.
• He is the head of the Ishmael Beah Foundation.

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