
Revisiting Hargeisa (2)
Mohammed would probably have saved himself some camels if Nigerian technology had been incorporated into the Somali bridal process… don’t stop now… read on!
Mohammed would probably have saved himself some camels if Nigerian technology had been incorporated into the Somali bridal process… don’t stop now… read on!
And so it was that in August I paid my second visit to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in time to attend the 7th Hargeisa International Book Fair. The theme was ‘Imagination’, don’t stop now… read on!
All this is getting boring, actually: nice Ethiopians, nice Somalis, nice Kenyans… My instincts tell me that the population of the Horn have to be more complicated than this. don’t stop now… read on!
Sometimes I wish I could switch off my brain in church, the way I switch off my mobile phone. don’t stop now… read on!
Exploding bombs have a way of intruding onto anyone’s agenda don’t stop now… read on!
Once, a perfect stranger greeted me confidently in a strange language and I smiled, I am not Tiv, I said, I am just wearing our national dress. don’t stop now… read on!
Wisdom wears disguise for fear of mobs, is not too precise:
did he prophesy the man’s death… or did he kill the man? don’t stop now… read on!
as a full grown tree, wisdom can be unmistakeable, but as seed and sapling it can look a lot like foolishness.