Monday, February 3, 2020

Some of the books I read in 2019


  1. Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe.
  2. A man of the people, Chinua Achebe.
  3. From a crooked rib, Nuruddin Farah.
  4. North of down, Nuruddin Farah.
  5. Ignorance is the enemy of love, Faarax M. J. Caw.
  6. The youth of god,Hassan Santur.
  7. 21 lessons for the 21st century,Yuval Noah Harari.
  8. The closing of the muslim mind, Robert R Reilly.
  9. World Order, Henry Kissinger.
  10. Ten arguments for delating your social media account right now, Jaron Lanier.
  11. The post American world,Fareed Zakaria.
  12. Why nations fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
  13. Somalia: The missed opportunities, Mohamed Sahnoun.
  14. Somalia:State collapse and the threat of terrorism, Kenneth menkhaus.
  15. Mogadishu memoir,Hassan Abukar.
  16. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment,Francis Fukuyama
  17.  The real politics of the horn of Africa, Alex de Waal.
  18. Call me American, Abdi Nuur Iftin.
  19. Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, Keith Richburg.
  20. Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo.
  21. The World as it is, Ben Rhodes.
  22. In the Name of Our Fathers, Abdirizaq Y. Osman.
  23. Everything you have told me is true, Mary Harper.
  24. No longer at ease, Chinua Achebe.
  25. Qab iyo Quursi,Abdi Farah Said.
  26. Maanafay,Mohamed Dahir Afrah.
  27. Rich dad poor dad, Robert Kiyosak.
  28. Development Theroies, John Rapley.
  29. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, Francis Fukuyama. 
  30. An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development,Abdi Samatar.
  31. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid.
  32.  The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.