In 2011, a Berlin journalist Michael Moore came to visit about a project about piracy in Somalia.There he was kidnapped for 32 months. The reason for his captivity was due to a flurry of horror stories from the East African famine last year, it occurred to me that quieter stories about how to revive Somalia have gone unnoticed," Michael wrote. A number of land-based pirate kidnappings in Kenya the previous year led to an invasion by Kenyan forces of southern Somalia, where the Islamist group al-Shabaab held power.