The best article you'll red today: "Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia"
Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government.
Sometimes you run across an article that you feel compelled to share because it opens up your worldview to such a staggering degree. This is one of those times for me.
This man emigrated to the US at 22, put himself through college, began a family, and then decided to move back to Somalia to create what is now considered one of the safest sections of one of the most broken places on Earth.
This is worth a read. This is worth a whole film, but for now, the read will have to suffice.
