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![Endless quest for pasture and water defines the life still adhered to by most Somalis, such as this family crossing a dry riv...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/d347831c-9fd9-11e3-8e38-61cae280eda8/104151_xgaplus.jpg)
![Fabled land of frankincense and myrrh, the Somali coast lured Arab merchant-settlers a thousand years ago. The thriving trade...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/e50eb926-9fd9-11e3-99b6-6d78ff38a69a/104152_xgaplus.jpg)
Fabled land of frankincense and myrrh, the Somali coast lured Arab merchant-settlers a thousand years ago. The thriving trade centers they established at Brava and elsewhere served as African portals for the Islamic faith. Today former nomads, some of whom had never seen the ocean, are learning to fish the teeming offshore waters.
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
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![Somalia greens with the rains in the river valleys of the south where villages are home to a minority: tillers of the soil. H...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/77d75eee-9fd9-11e3-ab66-8bde5c3146ac/42998_xgaplus.jpg)
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