Stringer, Anjan Sundaram
Stringer, Anjan Sundaram
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Stringer
A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Author: Anjan Sundaram

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/14/2014

Synopsis

In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V. S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.

About Anjan Sundaram

Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East for the New York Times and the Associated Press. His writing on Africa has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Fortune, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, and the Huffington Post. He has been interviewed by the BBC and Radio France Internationale on African current affairs. Anjan received a Reuters journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo's rain forest. He graduated from Yale, and currently lives in Kigali, Rwanda, with his wife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan

I'm not sure what the author was aiming for, but this is more of an account of his fledgling career rather than the depiction of war in the Congo. Written with no emotion or feeling, it's hard to get involved in the story. There are some eye opening descriptions of everyday life in Kinshasa, but, ag......more

Goodreads review by Zeb

What is never mentioned directly (but is tangentially) is that being an overseas Indian is what accounted for Anjan's ability to go places European/American journalists couldn't or wouldn't. If you look quickly at him, he could (with his curly hair) pass for African or Metis. This gave him a kind of......more

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