CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

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DEDICATION

Map of Africa and Somalia

INTRODUCTION: Villa Somalia

PART 1

The Pearl of the Indian Ocean: 1956–1976

  1  A Constellation of Nomads

  2  A Slate Scrubbed Clean

  3  Us against the World

  4  A Girl Called “Mosquito”

PART 2

The Sky Has Turned to Smoke: 1977–2009

  5  A Lonely Impulse

  6  From a Trickle to a Flood

  7  Leave to Remain

  8  Filling the Vacuum

PART 3

Picking Up the Pieces: 2010–2016

  9  A Man with a Plan

10  Wild Dogs

11  Believe Me

12  Mogadishu Mud

EPILOGUE: Lido Beach

A NOTE ON SPELLING

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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