Literature on child soldiers in West Africa’s civil (and resource) wars have grown into a genre of its own. In the United States the most notable exponents of this genre is perhaps Ismael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier backed by Starbucks and from which an excerpt was published in the [...]
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The Child Soldier Trope
Posted in Books, film, Ismael Beah, Joseph Conrad, Liberia, Newton Aduaka on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »