Inside Africa, the unknown continent Jeffrey Gettleman’s book is a fresh and inspiring take on the African diaspora, presented candidly This is my 259th Worldview column. It is also my first piece about Africa, a continent that most of us forget even exists unless we read about a horrible news story of war, poverty, disease, or strife. Jeffrey Gettleman, the South Asia Bureau Chief of the New York Times, who now lives in Delhi, will agree that the world has a bias against this huge continent that covers 20 per cent of Earth’s land area, large enough to fit China, India, the United States, and most of Europe put together. In his wonderful memoir,