Second interview

Interview preparations:

My second interview had to be better than the first time so I put more work into it, I did it at the library with a guy from Somali, I wanted something different because the first I interviewed a classmate from china, I wanted to hear about other cultures.

Interview report:

The interview took about thirty five minutes, because I had trouble with my recorder, so I borrowed a better phone from a friend. The interview was pretty good I should say, there was no awkwardness, he gave me some personal information about him, his country religion, and politics, how Somali doing right now, it’s like I was asking the good questions at the right time, it’s like he wanted to share the information as well. I had fun doing it, hopefully he did too and I think he did.

Country report:

The Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory. The internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government controls only a small part of the country. Somalia has been characterized as a failed state and is one of the poorest and most violent states in the world.Somalia lies in the easternmost part of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west. It has the longest coastline on the continent, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. Hot conditions prevail year-round, along with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall.

The history of Islam in the Horn of Africa is as old as the religion itself. The early persecuted Muslims fled to the port city of Zeila in modern day northern Somalia to seek protection from the Quraysh at the court of the Aksumite Emperor in present-day Ethiopia. Some of the Muslims that were granted protection are said to have settled in several parts of the Horn of Africa to promote the religion. Following World War II, Britain retained control of both British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland as protectorates. Somalia is the only African country that was never .