Bibliograph

Bad news, last journalists in a dictatorship, Anjan Sundaram

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Bad news, last journalists in a dictatorship, Anjan Sundaram

Language

eng

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autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad news

Oclc number

904400090

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Anjan Sundaram

Sub title

last journalists in a dictatorship

Summary

Bad News is the story of Anjan Sundaram's time running a journalist's training program out of Kigali, the capital city of one of Africa's most densely populated countries, Rwanda. 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. 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. "You can't look and write," a policeman ominously tells Sundaram, as he takes notes at a political rally. In Rwanda, the testimony of the individual -- the evidence of one's own experience -- is crushed by the pensée unique: the single way of thinking and speaking, demanded by those in power

Table Of Contents

Grenades -- Lights -- Force -- Resistance -- Assault

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Last journalists in a dictatorship

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