1. Somalian man collects his belongings, which were spread out during a sandstorm at a refugee camp on the Tunisia-Libya border. Sentencedict.com

2. It was formed on the "Kenyan Dome" a geographical upwelling created by the interactions of three major tectonics: the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates.

3. 22 The Virunga chain is part of the East African Rift Valley system, which marks the boundary between two plates: the Nubian plate to the west and the Somalian plate to the east.

4. 23 The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the Somalian plate to the east—before forking down either side of Uganda.

5. A Long Parenthetical Aside "To the inevitable question of how a City Night School teacher of English as a second language to HIV-negative Somalian women (they have to be HIV negative or they would never get in; you're forced to take a test, which means that when we all get some perspective around the year 2050 or so, some old Somalian woman is going to sue the city for forced …