
Somalian-born rapper K’naan tells the real story about Somalia’s pirates in this must-see interview with Davey D.

If you ask any Somali, if getting rid of the pirates only means the continuous rape of our coast by unmonitored Western vessels and the producing of a new cancerous generation, we would all fly our pirate flags high. One man’s pirate is another man’s coast guard.

Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates?

Although Somalis have recently been in the Western press because of piracy, the nation has a long and distinct history, centuries before the era of European colonialism.

On Oct. 1, the much-anticipated United States Africa Command (Africom) was officially launched. This military reorganization of U.S. forces to oversee developments in the entire continent has been met with strong objection from the major political states and regional blocs there.