"Beast of No Nation" is the story of Agu a child-soldier whose narrative has a lot in common with Birahima's in "Allah is not Obliged", both narrators not older than ten were unable to tell their ordeal in a grammatical correct language, nevertheless it was no deterrent to put their message across. However, let me confess it somewhat slowed down my reading as they were both children narrating atrocities in an unstructured language which makes it necessary to reread sometimes.
Agu's village is ravaged by war, his mother
