There is not one Mo Farah, but two. The first is a knighted British national treasure who arrived in London as a little boy and went on to become the most successful male track distance-runner ever.
The second lives rather more quietly in Djibouti, where he followed the remarkable things done in his name on television. He, in a sense, is the real Mo Farah; the one we have known under that name for years was born Hussein Abdi Kahin in a humble farming family in Somaliland north of Somalia and was trafficked to the UK at the age of nine in 1993 under false papers. The little boy didn’t know he was being trafficked by the unnamed lady with whom he travelled. He thought he was going to Europe to live with relatives and, as Farah recalls, was excited about flying for the first time.
