See you in Mogadishu

It was the month of November 1991. Mohamed Aden Sheikh, one of the most versatile Somali men and former representative of the Somali government, was publishing his first book in a Western country. “See you in Mogadishu”, a book-interview with Italian journalist Pietro Petrucci, was the story of the state of Somalia since its independence (1960) told by somebody who served its country as a shepherd, doctor, minister and refugee. Siad Barre, was the dictator who first appointed him as Minister of Health and Minister of Culture and Information in the ‘70s and then jailed him from 1982 to 1988; after Barre’s government fell in January 1991, three different self-declared “presidents” started fighting for the control of the territory and the international community was about to intervene.