Accused, Adama Bah
Accused, Adama Bah
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Accused
My Story of Injustice

Author: Adama Bah

Narrator: Joy Sunday, Qarie Marshall

Unabridged: 1 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2021

Synopsis

Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew. Then, on March 24, 2005, FBI agents arrested her and her father. Falsely accused of being a potential suicide bomber, she spent weeks in a detention center being questioned under suspicion of terrorism. With sharp and engaging writing, she recounts the events surrounding her arrest and its impact on her life?the harassment, humiliation, and persecution she faced for crimes she didn’t commit. Part of a series of compelling narrative nonfiction by young people for young people, Accused brings forward a crucial and unparalleled first-person perspective of American culture post-9/11 and the country’s discrimination against Muslim Americans.

About Adama Bah

Adama Bah is the author of Accused. Her experiences have been featured in Patriot Acts, a book about post-9/11 injustices, and Adama, a short documentary film. She lives with her husband and family in New York.

About Joy Sunday

Joy Sunday is a theatre alumna of The Fame School and a graduate of USC's film school. She made her television debut as a top-of-show guest star on MacGyver. When not appearing in television shows, she lends her voice to audiobooks.

About Qarie Marshall

Qarie Marshall has narrated over thirty series for the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He has also been a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together and has recorded BBC radio plays, the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox, and numerous audiobooks. In 2007, he was made an Associate Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip

One of two initial books in the I, Witness series by Norton Young Readers. Adama Bah immigrated to the U.S. from Guinea when she was two years old, following her father who had come to earn enough to bring his family so Adama would be safe from genital mutilation. After attending public school, she......more

Goodreads review by Ella

A huge thank you to the publisher & NetGalley for the arc of this book!! I really enjoyed this book and I can’t wait for all middle-grade readers to get their hands on it. This is a very informative story that really sheds light on all the prejudice Muslim people faced after 9/11. Basically in this b......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read and review this short first hand experience story. Wow. This is going to take me a few days to process this first-hand experience of injustice. It is absolutely heart-breaking to read about what Adama experienced as a Muslim teen shortl......more

Goodreads review by Sikna Bazzi

Aside from that fact that this is a true story. I am very grateful that NetGallery gave me the opportunity to read this. I will be using this in my future classroom as a teaching tool for when we discuss 9/11 and it’s effects on Muslim Americans. This was a quick read however the information was all......more

Goodreads review by Pat

A memoir of a Moslem teenager living in East Harlem who was targeted and forcibly detained (along with her father) by our FBI in the aftermath of 9/11 as a suspected terrorist/suicide bomber...hard to believe but I fear it to be oh so true.......more

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