Ishmael Beah defends his memoir against charges of falsification
Submitted by kingrat on Tue, 2008-01-29 04:27.The Australian newspaper found people living in Sierra Leone who said the timeline in the Beah's memoir, A Long Way Gone, was not accurate. Beah has previously rejected the claims, but Beah has come back with more evidence to support his story. "A man named Mr. Barry who claims to have been the head of the school I attended when I was young... The principal of my school was Mr. Sidiki Brahima."
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Hi: I feel Beah is a fraud as his account of his time as a child soldier does not match up with dates and facts. He was 15 at the time, not 13, which means he spent perhaps two months in the rebel army, not two to three years. His "adoptive mother" is a fiction writer (hmmmm), and his alleged quoting of Shakespere sounds suspiciously like a book written by another rebel soldier...suposedly accessed by Beah in which the writer alleges himself to be a student of the Bard. This guy needs to face the fact that he's been found out.