Gerard Prunier

In his inimitable prose, Prunier conveys how one of the world's newest nations came into being and survived, against all odds. The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus, decolonisation and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960, a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. Africa Confidential wrote...