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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.”

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

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Apr 06, 2022

New York City, New York

Apr 17, 2014

13:57

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