Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

This memoir is the extraordinary account of the battle for free speech in Rwanda. Following both reporters who stayed in the country under threat of torture and death, and those writing from exile, Bad News traces a band of journalists committed to exposing the injustices of President Paul Kagame’s regime. It is a story of surveillance; of newspapers being shut down; of corrupted elections; and of history being rewritten; but also, and above all, a story of great courage. ‘A superb exposé…a desolate work, taut prose describing the stifling atmosphere of a nation trapped in fear’ – The Guardian ‘Powerful and shocking’ – Sunday Times ‘A powerful evocation of the foreign correspondent’s experience’ – The Times Delivery options