A Man of Good Hope
by Jonny Steinberg
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"In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city's population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world. This ... book tells Asad's story, [from a childhood living in a bewildering number of places to an adulthood of financial and romantic show more success]"--Dust jacket flap. show lessTags
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Really excellent journalism & biography & study of the life of Asad Abdullahi, a Somali who moved across the continent of Africa and the risks he took to secure a life for himself and his family. I did not want it to end, but it was so hard to put down. Great read, thought-provoking and fascinating.
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Jonny Steinberg was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the only South African author to have won the Sunday Times Alan Paton award for literary non-fiction twice for his previous two books, Midlands (2002) and The Number (2004). He has worked as a show more journalist for Business Day and a collection of the best of his columns, Notes from a Fractured Country, was published in 2007. His latest work, Three-Letter Plague, was published in 2008. show less
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- Somalia; Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Ethiopia
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- Dutch, English
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