How do you measure the distance from an African village to an
American city? What does it mean to be refugee in today's global
village? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean
Feraca talks with a filmmaker who documented two Somali
families' effort to survice in America. - Anne Makepeace,
documentarian, maker of "Rain in a Dry Land" - Mohamed Osman, a
Somali native, founder of the Confederation of Somali Community
in Minnesota and the Somali-American Education Program,
Minnesota - Anne 12/13/07: "I had the pleasure of being on your
show on November 26, and wanted to clarify something for your
audience that may have confused them. Mohamed Hassan Osman, the
Somali man who was interviewed in the last half of the hour,
criticized my film, Rain in a Dry Land, as being 'dramatized'
and therefore untrue. In fact, the film is pure documentary and
tells the true, undramatized story of two Somali Bantu families
who are now in America. Like many Somalis, Mr. Osman wants to
deny the rampant oppression of