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Praise for A LONG WAY GONE“Beah
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harder still to grasp. Those seekin
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ISHMAEL BEAHA LONG WAY GONEIshmael
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To the memories ofNya Nje, Nya Keke
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New York City, 1998MY HIGH SCHOOL F
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Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapt
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with Junior, my older brother, and
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summer day, the sun wasn’t too ho
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with no indication of where their f
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me. Mother laughed. My little broth
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was all over the seats and the ceil
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the people from corrupt government.
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In the morning, the sun would rise
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2I AM PUSHING a rusty wheelbarrow i
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Memories I sometimes wish I could w
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very fast. The moon wasn’t in the
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town from inland, forcing the civil
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would call my name, to make sure I
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left behind, so that we could buy f
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tree stumps. We ran as fast as we c
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the grassland had grown yellowish.
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“It looks like a perfect fit.”
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Sweeping an arm in our direction, o
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When we got to the village, we sat
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pressure. I was in tears from the p
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As we were walking back home with b
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successful farming year.The first t
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a lot.We farmed for three months at
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imam, as Kaloko had described it, w
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passed through. There were no footp
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skeptical faces of the children and
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The next morning I was determined t
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I looked around the forest for one
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my presence. When they were gone, I
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pair of trousers I had recently fou
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He smiled as if he knew that one of
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shore. I had seen parts of the ocea
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hours, my feet became numb. I conti
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face. His eyes were big and looked
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and each time I looked at him he wa
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hoarse.“You children have become
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and for the first time I found myse
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10ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS abou
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the animals—mostly porcupines and
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plastic gallon of water and some sm
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opes around his village and weaving
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experienced not only clapped severa
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We ran to see what it was. It was a
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The hope of finding his family had
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clouds had stopped moving, the tree
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We stood Saidu up, and Kanei carrie
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One dog had come near the verandah
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walked through part of the village
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question was in our eyes when we lo
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One side of the sky was completely
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that adults usually ask young peopl
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We hid in the nearby bushes and lis
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expanding, and the pain released my
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impressive, in just a few hours in
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taken the wrong turn during the nig
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downstream, and we were let off nea
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called for fever, cold, and many ot
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“I read Julius Caesar in school,
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unning to the village for ammunitio
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But then again, all of us here have
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That night I stood at the entrance
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ullet in the head.” He would then
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they would misfire randomly and som
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e able to run fast,” he said. As
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I have never been so afraid to go a
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and pull himself up. But midway, he
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drank water and felt nothing. As I
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announce. His face evinced confiden
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sure nothing happens to you.” He
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Sometimes late in the night, the qu
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Kanei and Alhaji as we entered the
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foreigners and he called over the p
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sides of the road. I had no idea wh
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owls, and brought them out on a tra
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nervous to answer me.“He is a sis
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Mambu shot each one who attempted t
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16IT WAS INFURIATING to be told wha
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“You will have to wait for the on
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me. She covered me with a blanket a
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sat, to cover him. A few minutes la
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though there were still instances o
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We got off the bus on Kissy Street,
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long division. For English, we read
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didn’t follow us far enough, so w
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turned out that the bruises were fr
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and not her phone conversation. I l
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hold of me, and I listened closely
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on the ground. To avoid the open ar
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sent them to help take me back to o
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When I finished telling Esther the
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At the center of the city, Esther p
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a word. She knew what I wanted. She
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“Don’t mind him,” my mother c
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18ONE DAY DURING MY FIFTH MONTH at
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The visitors from the European Comm
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“I know, I know…”It was at th
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ent over and embraced me long and h
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met them, as I always felt uncomfor
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“I think my troublesome days are
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proceeding to embrace me so tightly
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19TWO WEEKS EARLIER, Leslie had tol
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her way to work. She hugged me, and
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hands, pressed the play button, and
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“Exactly, you say nothing and the
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shouting the names of their destina
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