English books from Sierra Leone

Recommended English books (3)

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Sierra Leone for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah EN

Rating: 4 214 Votes

Country: Africa /

Sierra Leone

Description:

In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.

Genre nonfiction

Tags: Male author

Recommended: 25 May 2022

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The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna EN

Rating: 4 9 Votes

Country: Africa /

Sierra Leone

Description:

"Are we girls, or are we demons? Are we going to die or are we going to survive? Deka lives in fear of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she can become a member of her village. If she bleeds red, she will belong. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold--the color of impurity, of a demon. The consequences force Deka to leave her village with a mysterious woman, destined to join an army of girls like her --the alaki, girls who are near-immortals with rare gifts, and the only ones able to stop the empire's greatest threat. But as she journeys to the capital to train for t... continue

Genre fiction Fantasy

Tags: Female author

Recommended: 08 Apr 2021