Thanks for reviewing Marty’s book. I hope your comments encourage people to buy it and read it. I had reviewing the book on my to do list but your knowledge and your own writing make you much more qualified.

I thought that Marty caught the complexity of life there as will as the complexity of outsiders trying to do anything useful.

I was in Somalia doing an evaluation for the Peace Corps when the president was assassinated in Las Anod. When I returned to Mog after being in Chismayo for a few days under curfew I visited the Ministry of Education. The minster said that he would like me to ask Peace Corps in Washington for 100 more teachers. I cabled Peace Corps saying that we were about to be expelled, which is what happened. I think that Marty captures this type of complexity in his book.

I look forward to getting your book and learning from your insights.

Thanks again.

The years there were some of the most memorable, engaging and growth enhancing of my life.

John F. Fanselow, Contractor’s Overseas Representative from Teachers College, Columbia to Peace Corps Somalia 1966-1968