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Anjan Sundaram

Anjan Sundaram is the author of Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship and the forthcoming Breakup: Diary from a War Zone. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. He is currently a Berggruen Fellow.

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From Wars Abroad, to Peace at Home

“As I’ve grown older, I’m more aware of the psychological risks we must take,” says the conflict-zone reporter. “Writing about my father represented such a psychological risk.”

February 27, 2021

No Direction Home

My father chose to pursue a better life for our family through migration, without ever settling and putting down roots. Now, that is my inheritance.

February 23, 2021

An image of Rwandan President Paul Kagame on the window of a bus, Kigali, Rwanda, July 30, 2017

Repression in Rwanda

With each election, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has tightened his grip on power, and the elections have increasingly turned into a performance of his authority.

August 4, 2017

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