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Bad News
- Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Engelsk Paperback
Bad News
- Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Engelsk Paperback

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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 detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781408866474
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1408866471
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 jan 2017
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
200mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
12 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge