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A review by eelsmac
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram
2.0
Hard meh. There's some really good insights but they get drowned out by the author's inferiority complex.
I bought this book because I'm interested in DR Congo and for an alleged journalist Sundaram does kind of a bad job describing the actual country and people on it. There are needless accounts of his internal experience as he bumbles through a war zone, but ultimately I felt it did an injustice to the people he met and interviewed because his experience overpowers the voices of the actual Congolese people. Which...is kind of just bad journalism, and a little bit imperialist b******* (I don't care that the author is not of the typical ethnicity or nationality that we think of when we talk about imperialism, he writes like an imperialist - I said it, I meant it).
I bought this book because I'm interested in DR Congo and for an alleged journalist Sundaram does kind of a bad job describing the actual country and people on it. There are needless accounts of his internal experience as he bumbles through a war zone, but ultimately I felt it did an injustice to the people he met and interviewed because his experience overpowers the voices of the actual Congolese people. Which...is kind of just bad journalism, and a little bit imperialist b******* (I don't care that the author is not of the typical ethnicity or nationality that we think of when we talk about imperialism, he writes like an imperialist - I said it, I meant it).