Ishamel Beah’s Statement For months I told Bob Lloyd and The Australians reporter, Shelley Gare, through my publisher, my agent, and my adoptive mother, that unfortunately they were wrong, that the man they claimed was my father was not my father, and that my mother and brothers were not alive, as Lloyd claimed. Last week, when The Australiansent reporters to my home in Sierra Leone, they were forced to acknowledge that this has been a hoax. Now The Australians reporters are trying to raise questions about the dates in my book, A Long Way Gone, regarding when the war came […]
