Comments on naijablog: Ishmael Beah

Are you kidding? This guy is no hero. He's a tot...

2008-03-12T03:44:00.000+01:00

Are you kidding? This guy is no hero. He's a total literary fraud. He's found a good thing (if you can call killing as a child soldier a good thing)...and he's used it to advance bis career. The book is a literary fraud, and that is beyond doubt.

Nice blog.Do you happen to have direct contact inf...

2007-06-22T20:54:00.000+01:00

Nice blog.

Do you happen to have direct contact info for Beah, by any chance?? If yes, pls hit me at [email protected]

I heard Ishmael Beah being interviewed on radio 4....

2007-06-21T23:45:00.000+01:00

I heard Ishmael Beah being interviewed on radio 4. It was interesting. Will definately get the book

The following week Biyi Bandele was being interviewed - his novel is out Burma Boy

check out the link from the guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,2093390,00.html.

Check out Blood River which is also out this month

Blood River: Africa's broken heart by Tim Butcher

Mae

Did you read Uzodinma Iweala's 'Beasts of no Natio...

2007-06-18T23:03:00.000+01:00

Did you read Uzodinma Iweala's 'Beasts of no Nation'?This is the real thing - I'm scared to read it...

I read this book over Spring break. A great page t...

2007-06-18T12:33:00.000+01:00

I read this book over Spring break. A great page turner in a light literary kind of way.

I couldn't believe 1/4 of the thing those kids went through. And to think some of them got kidnapped at 5.

Makes you wonder about humans; the thing we do to get other. Is there any hope in a world were children are turned into the killers of their own blood-brethren?