Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385539568 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through excellent writing, Sundaram demonstrates the overwhelming presence of fear and control from the Rwandan government and the constant steps they take to prevent anyone from speaking out against their single way of thinking. --Penny Mann. This is very much a story of the power and need for freedom of expression wherever you are--whether in Africa or the United States. An Best Book of January 2016: While Bad News is Anjan Sundaram's telling of his experience running a journalist's training program in Rwanda from 2009 to 2013, it isn't overly heavy on journalism or activism, but rather brings the feeling of a suspense or thriller plot
"More a memoir than a documentation" according to JeskoJ. I am disappointed by „Bad News“. I read the book with great expectations but found a personal memoir in which the author is mostly writing about himself and tries to sensationalize the whole story. I agree with many parts of Anjan Sundarams political analysis, describing Rwanda as an autocratic state with a democratic facade. He also describes the fear among the population very well and how the state grips every part of public opinion.I disagree with his description of the media in Rwanda. After the first pages the reader knows that Anjan judges before he concludes. He also makes a significant mistake. A tense read This small book is one intense chapter after the next. It reads like a political thriller. You are thrown into the throes of Kigali, Rwanda, and the author describes his time as a journalism instructor for a group of Rwandans who were mostly children during the 1993 genocide and who are determined to expose the truth. Every person he profiles, from Moses to Gibson to Rogers and a few others all have their horrifying stories to tell, of relatives killed, neighbors slaughtered, and friends who dissappeared without a trace.The sad thing is, this is now two decades later and there is still distrust toward the governm. valuable but grim and at times harrowing N. Ferguson R. Tense, gripping account of Rwanda trying to move forward, beyond the positive stories which we are more likely to see in current media. I think that, unfortunately, many Western readers will need a refresher on the Rwandan genocide, as Bad News assumes that readers will have basic knowledge and context.
Lurking underneath this shining vision of a modern, orderly state, however, is the powerful climate of fear springing from the government's brutal treatment of any voice of dissent. President Kagame’s regime, which seized power after the genocide that ravaged its population in 1994, is often held up as a beacon for progress and modernity in Central Africa and is the recipient of billions of dollars each year in aid from Western governments and international organizations. "You can't look and write," a policeman ominously tells Sundaram, as he takes notes at a political rally. A vivid portrait of a country at an extraordinary and dangerous place in its history, Bad News is a brilliant and urgent parable on freedom of expression, and what happens when that power is seized.. In Rwanda, the testimony of the indiv
His work has also been shortlisted for the Prix Bayeux and the Kurt Schork award. Stringerwas a Royal African Society Book of the Year in 2014. Anjan graduated from Yale University. ANJAN SUNDARAM is the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship and Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo. An award-winning journalist, he has reported from central Africa for the New York Times and the Associated