Somalian born, Nuruddin Farah, is an independent fiction author that focuses on Somalia’s political and social history. Previously, Farah published ten novels that have been translated into more than twenty different languages. Crossbones, is part of his last volume, ‘Return to Somalia’, trilogy that began with Link and Knots. This essay will be divided into two separate parts, in the first section; I will highlight the authors’ main themes and arguments covered throughout the novel. The second parts
Women have impacted history in ways that have changed the world, and have also changed the way that women are viewed today. Women, however, were not always viewed and respected in the way they are today. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and in Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts that women were treated completely different. Besides the social discrimination based solely upon race, and also the introduction of racism in politics, there were many different types of inequity living in European society during that
Somalia is a country in the horn of Africa bordering the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, Ethiopia to the west, Kenya to the southwest, and Djibouti to the northwest. It covers an area of about 637660 km square, which is almost five times the size of Alabama and slightly smaller than Texas. About 11 million people live in Somalia as of 2016, of which 85% are ethnic Somalis and the remaining 15% are Bantu and other non-Somalis including 30,000 Arabs (The World Factbook: SOMALIA)