Covering Africa: Pirates, Rebels and Other Tales
Jeffrey Gettleman has spent the past three years on the frontlines of news from Africa. He has lunched with pirates in Somalia and sweated it out for a week in an Ethiopian jail (not by choice). He’s covered Darfur, Congo, Kenya’s implosion last year, and the secretive side of Eritrea. He’s even sparred with a blind boxer in Uganda. Throughout these adventures, he tries to capture the humanity of the people he’s writing about and to look deeply into the causes of conflict. With the Obama Administration closer to the continent than any previous American government, huge changes lie ahead.
Gettleman covers 12 countries and has focused much of his work on conflicts in Kenya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia. Before this posting, he worked for the NY Times in New Jersey, Baghdad and Atlanta. He has also reported for the LA Times and the St. Petersburg Times and written features for The New York Times Magazine and GQ, and he has appeared on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC and the Charlie Rose show.
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