If I were a journalist, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to spend that much time there. It’s a summary of the problems and complexities of piracy-a new topic that hasn’t been handled before.ĭo you think that not being a journalist at the time gave you an advantage? It’s the story of one gang, melded with overall analysis. But he ended up in jail for continuing to finance piracy. He wanted the world to know what he was doing was wrong. When I first got there, Boyah, the godfather figure of this particular pirate gang, was setting out on a big redemption movement. Ultimately, this is the story of a gang of pirates I followed for one year. Here, he spoke with us about life on the high seas. Blending firsthand accounts of the modern-day swashbucklers with those of maritime officers, former hostages and foreign-policy experts, Bahadur gives texture and depth to a phenomenon that often seems more at home in the pages of a Hollywood script than the daily news sheets. In an attempt to flesh out that picture, Bahadur ditched his marketing gig and took off for the Horn of Africa where, over the course of a year, he chronicled the life of one gang of pirates-both on and off the sea. Read more books about current events in Africa. “Somalia is like a country out of a twisted fairy tale, an ethereal land given substance only by the stories we are told of it,” Toronto-based journalist Jay Bahadur writes in the introduction to his debut, The Pirates of Somalia.
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