Anjan Sundaram is the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship and Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo. He has reported from Central Africa for The New York Times and the Associated Press. His writing has also appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Telegraph, and The Washington Post. His war correspondence from the Central African Republic won a Frontline Club Award in 2015, and his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo’s rainforests won a Reuters–IUCN Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting in 2006. His work has also been shortlisted for a Prix Bayeux Award and a Kurt Schork Award.