In the last three decades, Somalia has been associated with such horrible terms as 'state collapse', 'civil wars', 'foreign intervention', 'warlordism', 'famine', 'piracy' and 'terrorism'.
This depiction was in contradiction to its earlier images as the cradle of the human race, the kernel of ancient civilizations, the land of Punt, a homogeneous nation-state and the first democratic state in Africa.
So how did things fall apart in the country? This Volume 1 of a two-volume narrative.
Adonis & Abbey Publishers Making sense of somali history: volume 1, paperback/abdurahman abdullahi
