A Long Way Gone :
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Juniata College
Summer Reading 2007 :
Resources for Teaching, Learning,
and Collaborating
"...For in this hour when the dying night lingers
Unwilling to surrender its wakening darkness
Over your face and fevered brow, my torn fingers
Will stray bringing such comfort
As may calm your doubting heart."
~Abioseh Nicol (poet from Sierra Leone)
Information about Sierra Leone
Check out these related resources at Beeghly Library:
- DVDs and Videos
- DVD 629 Diamonds of War: Africa's Blood Diamonds (Rebels use the precious gems to bankroll a
violent ten-year insurrection in diamond-rich Sierra Leone.) - DVD XX Blood Diamond (On order)
- Video 1010 Family Across the Sea (A delegation of Gullah people travels from the United States to
Sierra Leone to trace the roots of their heritage.) - VIDEO 1013 The Language You Cry In (A scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years
and thousands of miles from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia) - Nonfiction
- DT450.435 .G68 1999 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with
Our Families, by Philp Gourevitch - DT450.435 .H3914 2005 Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak: A Report,
by Jean Hatzfeld - DT476.5 .A34 2002 Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau,
by Adekeye Adebajo - DT516.5 .F868 2006 (REFERENCE) Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone
- DT516.8 .C66 1999 Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics, and
Society, by Earl Conteh-Morgan - DT516.8 .R53 1996 Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth, and Resources in Sierra Leone,
by Paul Richards - DT516.828 .B43 A3 2007 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
- DT655 .H63 1999 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in
Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild - E447 .O73 2000 The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the
United States and Sierra Leone, by Iyunola Folayan Osagie - GN484 .K67 1987 Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication, by Olayinka Koso-Thomas
- HD9677 .S52 C36 2004 Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most
Precious Stones, by Greg Campbell - HF1413.5 .C67 2000 The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
(see the chapter, "Sierra Leone: The Failure of Regional and International Sanctions") - HV555 .D44 P38 2001 Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian
Crises (see the chapter, "Sierra Leone: Peacebuilding in Purgatory") - JQ3121.A56C64 1995 Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone, by William Reno
- JZ6369 .L34 2004 Military Intervention: Cases in Conflict for the Twenty-First Century
(see the chapter, "Intervention in Sierra Leone," by Kwaku Nuamah and I. William Zartman) - RJ387 .A25 C485 2003 The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to
Possibility (see the chapter, "Civil Conflict, Sexual Violence, and HIV/AIDS: Challenges for Children in
Sierra Leone") - Fiction and Poetry
- PL8013.E5 H83 1966 Poems from Black Africa, edited by Langston Hughes
- PN 6010 .T25 2003 Talking Drums: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara
- PR9387.9 .A34354 H35 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- PS3561 .I496 P65 1998 The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- PS3609 .W43 B43 2005 Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala