The journey took three days over unpaved roads. The driver dropped them in Mogadishu in late afternoon, and they had to sleep in the street that night. Next morning they learned that their brother was no longer in Mogadishu, as he was one of the many Somali truck owners and drivers sequestered by the Italians for the war effort in Ethiopia in 1937.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 190