The Sixth Hargeisa International Book Fair - the rest
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The fair went on for several more days - to get an idea of the variety of events, please look at these photos taken by the young British photographer, Kate Stanworth : Somaliland goes crazy for books And listen to my From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio Four: Book Fair FOOC The book fair team Here's the script for my From Our Own Correspondent: (INTRODUCTION: Think of Somalia and what springs to mind? Perhaps pirates? Famine? Violence inspired by Al Qaeda? The country has come top of the list of the world's most failed states -- compiled by the US Fund for Peace -- for six years in a row. But in one corner of Somalia -- the north-western territory of Somaliland -- Mary Harper found the situation to be strikingly different:) Macbeth. Crime and Punishment. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. War and Peace. No, I am not standing in the Classics section of a bookshop in London or New York. I am standing on Somali soil -- or should I say sand -- at the Hargeisa Internationa