Read the transcript and/or listen to the audio of Jeffrey Brown’s News Hour interview with Somali author Nuruddin Farah “who recently published a novel [Knots] about post-civil war Mogadishu.”
“And now that I am older, the only thing I can say is that I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it, and the reason is because nothing good comes out of a country until the artists of that country turn to writing about it in a truthful way.” – Naruddin Farah