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World Service,3 mins

Why a banana photo prompted an online Somali protest

Boston Calling

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When LA Times journalist Matt Pearce sat down in a Somali restaurant in Minneapolis, he never thought his meal would suck him into the online world of the Somali diaspora. But when a banana arrived with his meal, he tweeted out a picture. Hundreds of people responded. (Image: Women sell bananas in the street of downtown Hargeisa, Somaliland. Credit: MOHAMED ABDIWAHAM/AFP/Getty Images)

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