Personal Life
Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. He is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother, the fourth eldest boy in a large family.
As a child, Farah frequented schools in Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia, attending classes in Kallafo in the Ogaden. He studied English, Arabic, and Amharic. In 1963, three years after Somalia's independence, Farah was forced to flee the Ogaden following serious border conflicts. From 1966 to 1970, he pursued a degree in philosophy, literature and sociology at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India.
Farah has two sons and a daughter.
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