Lest we forget about Somalia

25 September 2011, 1318 EDT

The musician K’naan’s haunting elegy for his country Somalia, wracked by famine:

So, 20 summers after I left as a child, I found myself on my way back to Somalia with some concerned friends and colleagues. I hoped that my presence would let me shine a light into this darkness. Maybe spare even one life, a life equal to mine, from indifferently wasting away. But I am no statesman, nor a soldier. Just a man made fortunate by the power of the spotlight. And to save someone’s life I am willing to spend some of that capricious currency called celebrity.

My pale by comparison five-part series on Duck of Minerva here about this already forgotten tragedy.