I write so much about the Horn. So much. Check out my Published Work page and Podcast Interviews to see more. I won’t simply reproduce the pages here. Or peruse the blog or google search Djibouti Jones and boom. So much. I’ll only share loads of book resources here.
And of course, read Stronger than Death!
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Books
- Black Hawk Down: a Story of Modern War, by Mark Bowden
- Learning from Somalia, the Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, by Walter S. Clarke
- Me Against My Brother: at War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda, by Scott Peterson
- Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21stCentury, by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Foster
- Operation Restore Hope: the US Army in Somalia 1992-1994, by Richard Stewart
- Somalia, the Untold Story: the War through the Eyes of Somali Women, by Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra
- Stoics without Pillows, by John Drysdale
- The Road to Hell, by Michael Maren
- Understanding Somalia: Culture, History, and Society, by I.M. Lewis
- Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
- Letteres dal Kenya
- Letteres dal Somaliland
- Letteres dal Somalia
- Different Drums, by Michael Wood
- Lettera dal mio Figlio, by Mario Neri
- Operazione Somalia: La dittatura, l’opposizione, la guerra civile, by Mario Sica
- Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: a Relief Worker’s Tale of Survival, by John Burnett
- The Mad Mullah, by Doug Jardine
- Blood on the Runway, by Salah Abdi Sheikh
- Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, Hope, and War in a Shattered State, by Mary Harper
- The Insanity of God, by Nik Ripken
- The Road to Zero, by Mohamed Osman Omar
- Io Sono Nessuno
- Bandits on the Border, by Nene Mburu
- War Destroys, Peace Nurtures, by Hussein M. Adam, Edna Aden, Richard Foster
- Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan Based Society, by I.M. Lewis
- Nine Faces of Kenya, by Karen Blixen
- War Clouds on the Horn of Africa, by Tom J. Farer
- Becoming Somaliland, by Mark Bradbury
- The Shaping of Somali Society, by Lee V. Cassanelli
- Somalia, the Missed Opportunities, by Mohamed Sahnoun
- Inside Al-Shabaab: the Secret History of al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally, by Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph
- Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin
- The Mayor of Mogadishu: a Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia, by Andrew Harding
- City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp, by Ben Rawlence
- Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, by Warsan Shire
- Desert Flower, by Waris Dirie
- Saa Waxay Tiri; Maansadii iyou Waayihii Xaawa Jibriil, translation by Faduma Ahmed Alim
- Born in the Big Rains: a Memoir of Survival and Somalia, by Fadumo Korn
- Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- FGM in Djibouti, Miriam Martinelli, PhD thesis
- Aman: the story of a Somali Girl
- From a Crooked Rib, and others, by Nuruddin Farah
- A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police Officer, by Derek Franklin
- Born Wild: the Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Passion for Africa, by Tony Fitzjohn
- Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman – 90,000 Lives Changed, by Hawa Abdi