The Ishmael Beah Foundation
http://http://www.beahfound.org/Beah_Foundation/Home.html
The Ishmael Beah Foundation (IBF) is a private, independent institution dedicated to helping children and youth affected by war reintegrate into society and improve their lives. The Foundation aims at creating and financing educational and vocational opportunities for children and youth who have been affected by war, so that they can be empowered to choose a life free of conflict.
The Foundation will achieve its goals through providing tuition, granting scholarships, creating literary and study corners that will be open to children and youth, as a way of engaging them and providing them with a safe place to take charge of their lives.
A Long Way Gone Website
Website dedicated to Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone and the author himself. Sponsored by the publisher. Contains various links to interviews conducted by and with the author, audio samples of the book, and background for the book, the author, and the events depicted in Beah's memoir.
The World Factbook: Sierra Leone
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sl.html
Geographical and historical context of Sierra Leone as published on the CIA's The World Factbook.
BBC News - Sierra Leone Profile
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14094194
Photographs and historical background on both the country and the civil war detailed in A Long Way Gone. Includes a timeline of important events.
NPR Fresh Air - Ishmael Beah's Memoir of a Boy Soldier
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7519542
Radio broadcast of interview of Ishmael Beah by NPR's Terry Gross. Recorded July 17, 2007.
