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Bad News

By Anjan Sundaram

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Bad News

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Hearing a blast, journalist Anjan Sundaram headed uphill towards the sound. Grenade explosions are not entirely unusual in the city of Kigali; dissidents throw them in public areas to try and destabilise the government and, since moving to Rwanda, he had observed an increasing number of them. What was unusual about this one, however, was that when Sundaram arrived, it was as though nothing had happened. Traffic circulated as normal, there was no debris on the streets and the policeman on duty denied any event whatsoever. This was evidence of a clean-up, a cloaking of the discontent in Rwanda and a desire to silence the media in a country most of whose citizens were without internet. This was the first of many ominous events. Bad News is the extraordinary account of the battle for free speech in modern-day Rwanda. Following not only those journalists who stayed, despite fearing torture or even death from a ruthless government, but also those reporting from exile, it is the story of papers being shut down, of lies told to please foreign delegates, of the unshakeable loyalty that can be bred by terror, of history being retold, of constant surveillance, of corrupted elections and of great courage. It tells the true narrative of Rwandan society today and, in the face of powerful forces, of the fight to make explosions heard.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2017-01-12
Publication Date:
2017-01-12
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1408866471
ISBN13:
9781408866474
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
153 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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