so it was very difficult, brought back a lot of memories. >> what about sierra leone? >> i am to some extent. >> i speak the language very well. and i want to observe, interestingly. >> radiance of tomorrow coming out in january 2013 at the finish the book? >> i have finished the book, looking for a cover. we already have some. >> what we are seeing here. and it is the cover. >> an image of the first we five chapters. it is coming out. >> is this written more in the tradition of sierra leone rather than a long way gun. >> storytelling, everything i write, and when you write about anything, there's another background. you can write about a very big term kind of like picking up, a beautiful poignant story that you want them to do. you don't want them to be disappearing in this country like this. i would never say that in the book. i would just describe the problem. people were living back then and the reader would. i would make an example, so the reader with no -- and experience of what has happened. and captivate readers and brings them -- to be part of the experience.

in sierra leone problems aren't hard to find.n fact, if you've heard of sierra leone probably because we've had so many. here is the lowdown. not that long ago we had a war and people were killed. everyone still talks about how frightening it was. now things are getting better. in 2010, the president announced a celebration when we stopped being the poorest country in the world according to something called the human development index. isn't my school cool? i'm the first person in my family to go to school. everyone says i'm the lucky one. lots of people think science is boring, but i don't. science is about asking questions and solving problems and as you know i like to solve problems. this is our physics teacher. you have to admit he's quite cool. he told us about isaac newton, the biggest problem solver of all time. he sat under a mango tree. well, it was apple tree but we don't have those so i think of mangos instead. he said why do they fall down and not up. that's when he came up with the law of gravity and motion. take his

in sierra leone problems aren't hard to find., if you've heard of sierra leone probably because we've had so many. here is the lowdown. not that long ago we had a war and people were killed. everyone still talks about how frightening it was. now things are getting better. in 2010, the president announced a celebration when we stopped being the poorest country in the world according to something called the human development index. isn't my school cool? i'm the first person in my family to go to school. everyone says i'm the lucky one. lots of people think science is boring, but i don't. science is about asking questions and solving problems and as you know i like to solve problems. this is our physics teacher. you have to admit he's quite cool. he told us about isaac newton, the biggest problem solver of all time. he sat under a mango tree. well, it was apple tree but we don't have those so i think of mangos instead. he said why do they fall down and not up. that's when he came up with the law of gravity and motion. take his first

s the biggest thing in sierra leone.e radio show i'm able to talk to lots of girls all over the country and help them. every week we discuss a problem. i mean real stuff.sics problem, one time a girl named satu called in. she lived with her aunt who used her to run errands instead of letting her go to school. even worse, her aunt's boyfriend had a really bad wandering hand problem. poor satu didn't know what to do so she called the show. i thought about what i would do. i told her to tell her mom everything. to not be afraid. she wasn't doing anything wrong and that she should be going to school. a few weeks later she called to say she was back at home living with her mom and going to school. she said i helped her solve her problem. when i'm older, my plan is to have my own tv show, solving the greatest mysteries in the world. welcome to dr. mariama's mystery show in which i, mariama, find the solutions to the world's most biggest problems here in freetown in front of a live studio audience. my big dream is to go to oute

and in sierra leone, problems in fact, if you've heard of sierra leone, it's probably because we've hadwe had a war and thousands of people were killed and hurt. everyone still talks about how frightening it was. but now things are getting better. in 2010, the president announced the celebration when we stopped being the poorest country in the world according to something called the human development index. isn't my school cool? i'm the first person in my family to go to school. everyone says i'm lucky. lots of people think science is boring, but i don't. science is about asking questions and solving problems and, as you know, i like to solve problems. this is our physics teacher. you'd have to admit, he's quite cool. he told us about isaac newton, áhe biggest problem solver of all time. he sat under a mango tree. well, it was an apple tree but we don't have those so i like to think it was a mang instead. and this newton guy aá)ák why does the mango fall down, not up? that's how he came up with the idea of gravity and his laws of mu)jjy take his first law, every object in the state of

and be he said, well, of course you know about the slave trade tribunal which sat in sierra leone. and i said, no, i've never heard of that, you know? and i study this. and he knew about it because of the special court for sierra leone sat in freetown which was where one of these courts sat. and be it was part of the local lore that this court had been there and had heard these cases. and it was sort of local common knowledge but not something that people were aware of elsewhere. and i discovered that the british were excellent record keepers, and so the complete archives of the courts are in the british archives in london. and so it was pretty easy the reconstruct from the archives what the courts had done. >> host: and from that spark came this book, "the slave trade and the origins of international human rights law." it's published by oxford. stanford law professor jenny martinez is the author. you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> host: and on your screen is a new book that is coming out this fall. it's called "the romney family table." ann romney is the author of this book. an

your first transcribe back to sierra leone-what was that like? >> was very, very difficult in the sense that i was going back to a place that -- i was a boy soldier and function as a child. and i was going back as a young adult, who had been -- had written -- so it was very difficult just to look at the places. it brought back a lot of difficult memories. and people recognize me as well. >> are you a celebrity there? >> yes, yes, i am. i am to some extent but i try to hide under the radar so when i'm there i'm in my flip-flops and shorts and i speak the lange well so i just try to be a regular person because it's good for my writing. want to observe without people staring at me. i'm interested. and so i become a regular person. >> now, radiance of tomorrow is coming out in january of 201. have you finished the book? >> yes, i have. it's coming out with just looking for a cover. we already have some -- this is just a mock -- >> what we're seeing here in this little booklet is not the cover? >> you would have the type that you have on there will be

. >> what is sierra leone like today? >> sierra leone is coming along. we put the world behind in 2002 and c-span and a lot of development coming along slowly and a lot of young people turning back to studies and small business and people going back home so the political fight is going not for the ones we want in terms of people looking and moving this forward and actually be of service to people and this is where the war started because we didn't have the government for the people, very small countries so if somebody is really interested in shaping this it can be done. we have leaders who are there for themselves and how well do we want to serve them before we define the leadership, it doesn't mean when you are in power that you are at the service or public service. you are not there to do whatever you like. these of the problems we're having but the country is very fit. we have no violence at all. we are moving along slowly. >> they still see a lot of anti tees? >> the preoccupation as much as possible which i write about in "radiance of tomorrow," ren

before that, way before that, before i thought about being a writer i grew up in of place in sierra leone, in a community, in a small village where as a young boy my imagination was sparked by the world tradition storytelling that was part of my life, part of the daily deliberations of whatever is that i did and so had a very young age i learned the importance of actually telling stories of how stories are pretty much excerpts of our lives, stories are the most potent anecdotes for anything we can encounter in our lives and how we can deal with them and stories are the foundations of our lives and how we build those and pass them on, the most important on, pass them on so the next generation can learn from the celebrations and whatever it takes the we want to pass on to them. as a young boy i knew this growing debt because every evening i would sit around the fire and older people in my community would tell stories and these are stories that were instructions about moral and ethical standards of my community, how to behave and some were just funny stories, some of them were scary stories

rights it is possible for him to stay here because criminal of this to have the sort we've seen in sierra leone. or in. character and this is one of those he. he's going to be allowed to walk the streets of britain and that's the problem john theo is the first potentially dangerous individual that the home office of tried and failed to deport jordanian terror suspect abu qatada has avoided extradition for over a decade patatas lawyers argue it's against his human rights to return to jordan where he could face torture not all the countries signed up to the european convention on human rights choose to follow it the french and italian governments deport dangerous individuals first and then hear their appeals i think one of the problems we have this country is but often is until something goes drastically wrong we don't seem to want to find the adequate solution or effective solution for the problem we tend to leave things as they are a list problem is big and cough and something really does go wrong in the sense that something like this goes on the streets actually starts hucking people but it di