Child soldiers in Chad

Chad is country in Africa located in the northern part. It has child soldiers and it is estimated that 7,000 to 10,000 child soldiers are still in the armed forces most are told that if they join them and their families will get out of poverty and it will build they're future.

Quotes

"A child is born with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind"- Grand Master Flash:The Message

This quote is not really related to the main character But it is more or less related to all the kids who get raised up not knowing that what is going on in the book we are reading "Along Way Gone" that this is actually happening every day villages getting taken over, people killed, whole villages in poverty, we have hid this from them but if we were to tell them at a younger age they might just help to do something about join together and change the world little by little.

"I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark"- Grand Master Flash:The Message

This relates not only to the main character in the book but to the whole village and how they can't go any where without the fear of being captured or killed or something worse.

RUF

Revolutionary United Front-RUF

They were a rebel army in Sierra Leone that fought a eleven year war

They had fought to topple Liberian govenment

Foday Sankoh was captured in 2001 and killed for war crimes by the british in 2003 before the trial

Grand wizard Theodore

1.Theodore was the inventor of scratching and the needle drop.

2.he was in the 1983 film "Wild Style".

3. his band name is "Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five".

4. His band made the song "Can I Get A Soul Clap".