“On February 1, 1956, the British Somaliland Protectorate’s Radio Somalicarried the voice of nationalist Michael Mariano across the northern Somali territories…”
So begins today’s story from Dr. Safia Aidid
For further reading:
Somalia: Nation in Search of a State by David D. Laitin and Said S. Samatar (Westview Press, 1987)
Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussein by Abdi Samatar (Indiana University Press, 2016)