What is the setting of Ishmael Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone? Sierra Leone during the Civil War the British colony of Sierra Leone Oberlin College in 2004 South America in the late 1990s

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Zayden Vaughan

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10 March, 18:14

What is the setting of Ishmael Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone? Sierra Leone during the Civil War the British colony of Sierra Leone Oberlin College in 2004 South America in the late 1990s

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Louis Yang · Answer 1

The answer is Sierra Leone during the Civil War. He was twelve years old when the war broke out in 1990s. The book covers his experiences as a boy soldier of the Revolutionary United Front to his rehabilitation with the United Nations.

Aydan Blanchard · Answer 2

The book titled A Long Way Gone is memoirs of Sierra-Leonean author and former child soldier during Sierra-Leone Civil War. Beah not only talks about the war, but also his childhood and the life before the war. The book is written in 2007, but describes the events of 90s when the Civil War broke out.