Huffington Magazine Issue 51 | Page 13

Q&A CLEMENS BILAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; MARCUS BRANDT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Enter HUFFINGTON 06.02.13 Ishmael Beah on Life As a Solider at 13 “I did not want to get out … in my case, in Sierra Leone … being in the war was actually one of the ways to stay alive.” Ishmael Beah, 32, was forced into being a child soldier in Sierra Leone, an experience he recounts in his 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (above). FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW, VISIT HUFFPOST LIVE