Call Me American

Abdi wakes up in his hotel room, calls Aleey, and departs for his bus. On the way to the depot, Aleey convinces Abdi to take a different route into Kenya. Abdi hides in the cabin of a truck all the way to a border, and then he is smuggled into Kenya on the back of a motorcycle. The truck is waiting for him on the other side. The drivers stop for the night and Abdi sleeps beneath the truck. When he wakes up, they are gone. Abdi wanders around the small town until he finds a bus heading to Nairobi. He buys a ticket and arrives in Nairobi that evening.

Abdi finds Hassan. They eat and then head to the city’s Somali district, known as Little Mogadishu. They stay the night at a hotel and catch up. Hassan explains for the first time how hard it was for him to get to Nairobi: The journey nearly killed Hassan but he now works as an illegal street vendor. Abdi wakes up the next day and marvels at the difference between Mogadishu and Little Mogadishu. He buys new clothes, gets a haircut, and then visits Ben Bellows. After dinner, Abdi returns to Hassan’s apartment.