In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug, 28, 2013. Ahmed Jama a British Somali chef and one of last year’s TEDx Mogadishu speakers, cooking food at his hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. Ahmed spoke last year and will speak again this year. He said last year’s talk “connected me to the world.” The talk won him an invitation to a cooking event in Denmark. The short talks by artists and intellectuals at events known as TEDx have been held 7,500 times in more than 150 countries, but there may not be an event more challenging or dangerous as the TEDx talk being held in Mogadishu this Saturday. Then again, there may be no city in the world that needs its smartest and strongest voices heard as much as Somalia’s capital, which is clawing its way forward to move beyond its bombs-and-bullets past. FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH — AP Photo