#1 Amazon New Release (War & Peace)
2024 Montaigne Medal Finalist
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone
The captivating story of war and peace through a pop culture lens. Award-winning author Marc Sommers has written an extraordinary new book on how reggae idol Bob Marley, rap legend Tupac Shakur, and the Rambo movies influenced youth, civil war, and peacetime in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.
An international consultant specializing on youth, peacebuilding, education, security & countering violent extremism
About my work
My work questions the wartime and peacetime status quo. It involves probing spaces marked by warriors, alienated youth, suspicious governments and many more, and using new insights to upgrade policy, practice and analysis.
