Angela Robson writes about Sierra Leone's lost children and how they came to be murderers, rapists, butchers and above all victims in their country's brutal civil war. She traces the effects of their trauma and looks at the present lives of these former combatants. She follows Dabo Seidu, who now runs a motorcycle taxi business and Boga Slim who has become a rapper (and claims he survived the war by rapping to entertain the troops on the front line). Although Sierra Leone is now at peace, the conditions of the war – and for renewed conflict – remain.

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