Searching for my Grandmother - Ishmael Beah

“At the end of the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone, everyone was looking for somebody they knew before that madness. Somebody to be able to remind them of what their lives had been before.”

Searching for my Grandmother

by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah is separated from his beloved grandmother during the war in Sierra Leone.

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Original Air Date

Apr 06, 2022

Location

New York City, New York

Recorded

Apr 17, 2014

Duration

13:57

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