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A Man of Good Hope

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When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them used to be eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he used to be swept by myself into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people All the way through sub-Saharan Africa and the world.

This odd book tells Asad’s story. Tossed from one catastrophe to any other, Asad’s journey covers countries and continents, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to the Ethiopian hinterland; and the promises and pitfalls of Johannesburg, South Africa, whose streets he believed would be lined with gold. Thus begins a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he may be able to have imagined, leading to the final coda of The usa. All the way through, A Man of Good Hope is a complex, affecting, in the end hopeful portrait of Asad’s seek for salvation, suffused with dreams and desires and a wish to leave something permanent on this earth.

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