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Safirka An American Envoy 2000, 248 pp
courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books |
“This book recounts my experiences as a career office of the American Foreign Service, as ambassador to Somalia in 1984–86 and during the years before I went to Africa….What follows does not claim to be the account of a lifelong expert on Africa, but simply an objective account by a man who came to love Somalia but not its dictatorial president; who studied carefully both that country’s long and fascinating past and its appalling present problems; who did what he thought right for both American interests and for Somalia, sometimes on instructions from Washington and sometimes without them.”
—from the Introduction
