At the New Yorker, a set of beautiful, strange photos from the life of Somali chef Ahmed Jama, who…

At the New Yorker, a set of beautiful, strange photos from the life of Somali chef Ahmed Jama, who owns a restaurant in Mogadishu called The Village that was bombed by the Shabaab (the same group responsible for this weekend’s shootings in Nairobi) on September 7th. Somalia’s last two decades have been marked by nonstop violence; over 800,000 people fled the country in a single 18-month period from 2007–2008. Jama, in contrast, just reopened The Village for business. “Not many customers came, but we had a few people buying coffee. It’s a beginning. I’m not going to give up,” he told the New Yorker.