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From The Spectator, June 9, 2007:

He Ishmael Beah was a 12-year-old schoolboy who could recite Shakespeare and loved rap and hiphop when, in 1993, he left his village in Sierra Leone with his elder brother and two friends to walk 16 miles to a nearby town to take part in a talent contest. It was there that the war got them. Hearing that in their absence rebel forces had overrun their village, they went back to find it ransacked and deserted. Now followed months of trekking through bush and forest, living off fruit and food scavenged from terrified villagers or looted from deserted houses, searching for safety and for any scattered survivors from their families. Along the way, they saw sights and heard stories unimaginable to those who have…

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