Australian Paper Finds Errors in Beah’s Memoir This weekend The Australian published findings from an extensive investigation into Ishmael Beah’s memoir A LONG WAY GONE, concluding that he was older than he claimed when he was forced to serve in the Sierre Leone army and that he probably only fought for two or three months rather than the two years described in the book. The second page of Beah’s book says, “The first time that I was touched by war I was 12. It was in January 1993.” The paper writes: “But the event he goes on to describe did […]
