Journalist Anjan Sundaram talks about his time teaching a journalism class in Kigali,Rwanda in the wake of the 1994 genocide. In Bad News: final Journalists in a Dictatorship, he looks at how the current dictatorial regime is praised by the West as a model state, or despite the panic and brutal treatment experienced by some journalists. Event: Anjan Sundaram will be in conversation with Mythili Rao at BookCourt (163 Court Street,Brooklyn) on January 19 at 7 p.m. He will also be reading from his book, signing copies and answering questions. From the Appendix in Bad News:Major governments and institutions that bear if support to the government of Rwanda:
GovernmentsUnited States of AmericaUnited KingdomBelgiumGermanyNetherlandsSwedenIsraelPeople's Republic of ChinaJapan[br]
Multilateral Institutions
European UnionUnited NationsWorld BankAfrican Development BankInternational Monetary FundGlobal Fund
Nonprofits and AcademicClinton FoundationTony Blair Africa Governance InitiativeBill & Melinda Gates FoundationWorld Economic ForumHarvard UniversityPartners in Health[br]
Note: This list is not exhaustive.
From the Book:
BAD NEWS by Anjan Sundaram
Copyright © 2016 by Anjan Sundaram[br]Published by arrangement with Doubleday, and an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Source: wnyc.org