Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345806328 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Fortune, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune,The Telegraph, The Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, and the Huffington Post. He has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale for his analysis of the conflict in Congo. He received a Reuters journalism a
A good read. Gives an interesting A good read. Gives an interesting, not frequently heard point of view of African life and politics that we in the west don't get to see much. Looking forward to reading more from Mr. Sundaram.. N. B. Kennedy said War reporting is hell. War reporting is a glamorous job, right? Wrong! That's one of the big messages you get from Anjan Sundaram's book about reporting from war-torn and poverty-stricken Congo.Mr. Sundaram was a Yale graduate with a promising future in mathematics, when he increasingly felt he was missing out on something. "The beauty in America and in mathematics had become cloying," he writes. "In America, I was beginning to feel trapped and suff. Nathan Webster said Certainly a well-written journalistic account of a brutal place, but a bit oversold by the pre-release publicity. I thought this book was okay, but I feel it was a bit oversold. This is an interesting and descriptive account of an out-of-his-element rookie reporter navigating dangerous and strange surroundings - but I feel like his original "Certainly a well-written journalistic account of a brutal place, but a bit oversold by the pre-release publicity" according to Nathan Webster. I thought this book was okay, but I feel it was a bit oversold. This is an interesting and descriptive account of an out-of-his-element rookie reporter navigating dangerous and strange surroundings - but I feel like his original 2005 reporting (which I Googled and read) is more interesting than this memoir of the life he was leading at the time.I don't see any "feverish desperation" (besides him actually having a fever at one . 005 reporting (which I Googled and read) is more interesting than this memoir of the life he was leading at the time.I don't see any "feverish desperation" (besides him actually having a fever at one
Excerpts from his notebooks chronicle personal reflections as he struggles to learn how to report from an unruly land, harboring doubts and misgivings and a feverish desperation to make sense of one of the deadliest places in the world. The combination was unpromising, as “few cared for news” of the Congo. On a daring trip upriver, he risked his life to interview a warlord fighting for control of valuable territory and stayed in Kinshasa to report on postelection chaos as other reporters fled. --Vanessa Bush . Then he lucked into a position as a stringer with the Associated Press, reporting on harrowing struggles to exploit wealthy metal reserves, conflicts between the militia and rebels, polit
in mathematics to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and refashion himself as a journalist. When Sundaram is engaged as a “stringer” for the Associated Press, he becomes a chronicler for a country he’s just beginning to experience. Stringer is his searing portrait of life in this broken, lawless place, an account of the rocky education of a reporter. As the city of Kinshasha descends into anarchy after a contested election, Sundaram takes shelter in a factory to file report after report even as other journalists flee. Oscillating between anger and loneliness and between melancholy and exhilaration, Stringer completely transports us not only to the Congo—but to the limits of sanity, reason, and experience.. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world’s unhappiest countries.In August 2005, Anjan Sundaram abandoned his path to a Yale Ph.D. Sundaram describes the grueling reality of daily existence in the Congo, intimately outlining his own struggle to make sense of life in a world where