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Article: Knots.(Book review)
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- Harvard Review
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- June 1, 2008
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Knots by Nuruddin Farah, Riverhead Books, 2007, $25.95 cloth, ISBN 1594489246.
Somalia, the horn of the Horn of Africa, formerly a partitioned colony of Britain and Italy, has not had a functional state government since the over- throw of its longtime ruler Siad Barre in 1.991. Since then, this stateless nation has been mired in civil wars that have brutalized the citizenry, devastated the land and economy, produced an enormous refugee population, and ruined the remnants of an already strained national infrastructure. What historians refer to as Somali irredentism, ignited by years of colonial misrule and spasms of conflict with Ethiopia, has been distilled into ...