Anna In Somalia

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🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A man is trapped in a remote prison. And he's trapped in his own mind. Until he hears a knock on the wall.... and words from another time and place.

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0:00.0	The six months before Muhammad went to prison were the best six months of his life.
0:04.5	He'd landed this great job managing a Pepsi plant and he'd found true love on his first
0:09.1	date.
0:10.1	We went to a small restaurant near where we lived.
0:13.0	Her name was Ismahan, 20 years old, a teller at a state bank.
0:16.7	And we were talking and we used to shyly, of course, you know, she was pretty shy and
0:23.5	we realized that we wanted to get married.
0:27.3	That's it.
0:28.3	Love it for so.
0:29.3	It's in the sense, yeah.
0:35.8	Muhammad said he was just so struck by how generous he was and smart and they connected
0:40.3	about everything from the future of their country to the music they liked.
0:44.6	Whatever image is the word Somalia calls to mind, the Somalia where Muhammad lived was
0:49.1	in a cultural renaissance.
0:50.9	This was 1981.
0:51.9	It was under Communist rule.
0:53.8	And the dictator, he was a dictator but he was also a big fan of Somali culture and
0:58.4	music.
0:59.4	Music was actually a big part of how Muhammad courted Ismahan.
1:02.7	He made her mix tapes.
1:04.4	This was the 80s.
1:05.4	She was into song, kind of stuff like that.
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