A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg

By (author): Jonny Steinberg. Jonny Steinberg tells the true story of Asad Abdullahi, who fled Mogadishu at age eight when civil war broke out in 1991, after his mother was murdered and his father disappeared. The book follows his years as a refugee hustler across Nairobi, Ethiopia and Addis Ababa, his marriage to Foosiya, and his eventual journey to Johannesburg with $1,200 in search of opportunity — a story of resilience and hope across a continent "richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined."