Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth toothless and without a tongue, ugly in the extreme, cavernous, tomblike.


Op-ed in the New York Times (December 28, 1992)

Nuruddin Farah Quotes

Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth ...

Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth ...

Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth ...

Overwhelmed as I am with the magnitude of the crisis, I say this: Somalia is an open sore, a wound gaping as wide as a gate on broken hinges, a mouth ...