Born and raised in a comfortable Chicago suburb, Gettleman, now 45, has fulfilled his teenage dream of living in Africa. As he recounts in “Love, Africa,” his newly published “Memoir of Romance, War and Survival,” the award-winning journalist has had more than a few close encounters with death. Then, after evading Tanzanian authorities and crossing into Kenya, he was flattened in Uhuru Park by muggers who stole all his money and US passport. The US was wrong to encourage and abet Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, Gettleman argues, pointing to Shabaab’s subsequent guerrilla war of resistance that returned the country to bloody disorder. “Part of me wants to look up and see a new skyline, to experience more of our fast-changing world.

Source: Daily Nation May 27, 2017 23:15 UTC