Book review: A Man Of Good Hope

A Man Of Good Hope

“Why a country whose citizens share a common language, religion and long-standing heritage has torn itself to pieces,” writes prominent South African journalist Jonny Steinberg in this painstaking and humane memoir, “is the great question that hangs over Somalia.”

Steinberg tells the story of these upheavals by patiently reconstructing their effects on a single man, Asad Abdullahi.