"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X (Message to the Grassroots speech on November, 9, 1963)

Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free.

In the global imagination, the conceptual idea of Somalia derives from the notion of the uncanny, fantastic and primitive savage. The mainstream media has managed to frame this oriental construction of Somalia using the dehumanizing nomenclature of “pirates,” “warlords” and “terrorists.”  These caricatures are exhumed from a long-dead history and then projected as marauders of our twenty-first century conscience.