They returned to the beginning. War approached, and the city was being emptied. I walked two miles into the wild with a boy who showed me how Gaga – and the country, the Central African Republic – was being turned inside out. The jungle paths had become the alleyways of a more secretive, older f…
A Place on Earth: Scenes from a War
Anjan Sundaram
Dense forest and formless roads lead Sundaram to the most recent sites of conflict, burnt-out villages where pigs have taken over their former owner’s homes in an ‘inversion of man and beast, of civilization and nature’.
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Blue Sky Days
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The Transition
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Anjan Sundaram
Anjan Sundaram was born in India and studied at Yale University. He has reported from Central Africa for nearly a decade for Associated Press, the New York Times and several other publications. He is the author of Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo.
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