Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trus….

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is….

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life..

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family ….

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy..

A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What….

Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around th….

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was differen….

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say ….

We must strive to be like the moon.

I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood ….