notes on sudan
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union official, labour histories.
Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.
These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody".
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October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody".
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From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but:
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but:
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.
Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs.
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
October 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs.
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/
October 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/
V short notice, but this film on Sudanese & South Sudanese refugees & asylum seekers in Morocco & Libya is screening later today in E. London. Funds raised go towards Captain Support Network UK, whose work supports those in prison due to govt's hostile policies.
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
V short notice, but this film on Sudanese & South Sudanese refugees & asylum seekers in Morocco & Libya is screening later today in E. London. Funds raised go towards Captain Support Network UK, whose work supports those in prison due to govt's hostile policies.
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
Maps from an old Sudanese union booklet (publication Khartoum 1950s) on colonialism in Africa (reposting from my 🐦).
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Maps from an old Sudanese union booklet (publication Khartoum 1950s) on colonialism in Africa (reposting from my 🐦).
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
happy birthday fanon 🎈
July 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
happy birthday fanon 🎈
Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........
(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)
Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
May 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
As with every May Day, to the waged and unwaged of Sudan, who did and continue to do the work of caring, evacuating, healing, transporting, cooking and feeding as the bombs fell, throughout it all 🌹
May 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As with every May Day, to the waged and unwaged of Sudan, who did and continue to do the work of caring, evacuating, healing, transporting, cooking and feeding as the bombs fell, throughout it all 🌹
36 years ago today the trade unionist and communist Ali Fadul was tortured to death in a ghost house for organising a strike by the Sudanese doctors' union against the military government. Military doctors wrote malaria as cause of death despite visible trauma to his skull.
April 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
36 years ago today the trade unionist and communist Ali Fadul was tortured to death in a ghost house for organising a strike by the Sudanese doctors' union against the military government. Military doctors wrote malaria as cause of death despite visible trauma to his skull.
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A video recorded by Sudan Tribune yesterday that shows the sheer scale of looting of Sudan National Museum. There are artifacts that have survived every plague, invasion, and occupation for millennia and predate the birth of Christ that have not survived this war.
March 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A video recorded by Sudan Tribune yesterday that shows the sheer scale of looting of Sudan National Museum. There are artifacts that have survived every plague, invasion, and occupation for millennia and predate the birth of Christ that have not survived this war.
One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).
March 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).
Finally got round to watching Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and, as much as I enjoyed it, this review and this part in particular is spot on (via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/01/requ...) - would argue both violent opposition and internal contradictions were key.
March 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Finally got round to watching Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and, as much as I enjoyed it, this review and this part in particular is spot on (via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/01/requ...) - would argue both violent opposition and internal contradictions were key.
Strange seeing people laud certain western European leaders for being outraged at Trump's horrible conduct towards Zelensky without acknowledging that he basically spoke to him the way they speak to Africans. This was only last month.
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Strange seeing people laud certain western European leaders for being outraged at Trump's horrible conduct towards Zelensky without acknowledging that he basically spoke to him the way they speak to Africans. This was only last month.
2012 حسن موسى
Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto by Sudanese artist Hassan Musa
Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto by Sudanese artist Hassan Musa
February 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
2012 حسن موسى
Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto by Sudanese artist Hassan Musa
Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto by Sudanese artist Hassan Musa
I think a lot about the fact that revolutionary graffiti remains on bullet-ridden walls across Sudan, and about the people who risked arrest and worse to scrawl these words.
February 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I think a lot about the fact that revolutionary graffiti remains on bullet-ridden walls across Sudan, and about the people who risked arrest and worse to scrawl these words.
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️🩹
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️🩹
If you're in London today and want to join us x (yes I always forget to share until last minute/yes I'm running late)
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you're in London today and want to join us x (yes I always forget to share until last minute/yes I'm running late)
Present from my late father - book of translated Brecht poems (📷 is a translation of 'To those born later') 🌹 إلي الاجيال القادمة
February 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Present from my late father - book of translated Brecht poems (📷 is a translation of 'To those born later') 🌹 إلي الاجيال القادمة
Happy birthday Gramsci 🌹
January 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Happy birthday Gramsci 🌹