ABSTRACT
Generally speaking, nostalgia is the desire for and the pain associated with the inability of returning “home” while away; that “home,” however, is to be understood both as a physical or metaphorical place of comfort and as a time in the past. Nostalgia can have different aims, and can be triggered by different factors; it can be both a revolutionary concept and a conservative one, it can call for a change or it can call for the preservation of the status quo. Moreover, nostalgia “has a therapeutic potential. It can help society and the individual to cope with change, endure loss, deal with alienation and quell feelings of anxiety and uncertainty”. The long, straight, underutilized, desert road Garowe-Bosaso, under which, according to the journalist's investigations, radioactive waste from Western countries was buried, becomes the emblem of the collapse of Somalia.
