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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.
TITLE: Bad News
AUTHOR: Anjan Sundaram
SKU: 9781408866467
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
DATE PUBLISHED: 14/01/2016
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 208
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 135 mm x 216 mm
WEIGHT: 230 gr
