Call Me American: A Memoir  -  Abdi Nor Iftin

KORTE INHOUD

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies.

Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous ...
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2018 Uitgever: Knopf 320 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1524732192 ISBN-13: 9781524732196