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Nearing Mactan: Somalia

“In these unsettling times,” Nuruddin Farah writes, “Everyone’s fate, actions, dreams, hates, and aspirations were seen, understood, and interpreted in stark political contexts; distrust was the order of the day, and everyone was suspicious of everybody else…. In a civil war, there were no progressives and no reactionaries; everyone was a victim, seldom a culprit.”
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Second book for Nearing Mactan

The second book has been officially selected for Nearing Mactan. For those who don’t know, Nearing Mactan (which anyone can join) is a blogging book-club community that plans on reading one book from every country on the planet. We’ve already read a book from Romania, and with the selection of the second book, we’re about [...]

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