Chernoh Bah

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Chernoh Bah is a former child soldier from Sierra Leone. Bah is also an award-winning journalist imprisoned for exposing human rights violations in the treatment of Sierra Leonean refugees.

At twelve Chernoh was forced into the Sierra Leone army as one of the infamous child soldiers. Along with thousands of other children Chernoh was made to fight in the deadly civil war that devastated the country in the 1990s.

Before he was 20 Chernoh organized the Awareness Movement of Sierra Leone, edited the newspaper The Point, and was forced into exile in Guinea-Conakry where he became a political prisoner. At 21 Chernoh founded the Africanist Movement, which is today based in eight countries of West Africa. The Africanist Movement recently voted to join with the effort led by the Uhuru Movement to build the African Socialist International, the worldwide movement to unify and liberate Africa.