sierra leone

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States. Presented in Spanish.

Describes the Special Air Service assault in West Africa during 2000, discussing conflict diamonds, HMS Ocean, initial strategy, and the planning, execution, and outcome of the mission, and including photographs, maps, and illustrations.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

A young girl of Sierra Leone describes her daily life in her rural community. Includes lyrics and music for the song she sings each night before bed.

Young Aminata Diallo is abducted from her West African home in 1745 and sold into slavery in North Carolina; but on a trip to New York City with her master, she escapes in the midst of an anti-British demonstration and helps the British transport hundreds of slaves to freedom in Nova Scotia.

"In the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone, a village comes together to regain the beauty of life as it was in the past"--Provided by publisher.

Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo becomes a slave but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she works for the British, recording the names of the Blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia. Aminata becomes one of these but the hardship and prejudice she encounters in Nova Scotia prompts her to follow her heart back to Africa, and then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

The author provides an account of life in Sierra Leona at the end of the civil war that raged in the country for eleven years, told from his viewpoint as an outsider who had spent some time in the country years earlier, as well as the perspective of Sewa Bockarie Marah, a leader in the People's Party.

Explains how diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone has funded a brutal rebel war that has wrought havoc on the country's people; discusses connections to such groups as al-Quaeda; and measures the international diamond industry's complicity in the situation.