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.

having overthrown every dictator we'd ever had, lots of arab analysis in 2019 read the revolution as a "delayed arab spring" when it was the 3rd dictator sudanese ousted. but arab news outlets do actually platform sudanese analysts in sudan from diff movements which is more than western media 2/2

diff arab govts are aligned with diff factions in sudan & sometimes (def not always) that's represented in their state-owned media (eg aljazeera being qatari, al-hadath saudi). but also arab analysts can be v paternalistic/ignorant of their ignorance on sudan, e.g. despite sudanese... 1/2

There have been years of people ignoring what’s happening in Sudan. The only reason that it’s a news story today is because it’s so bad that you can see the literal bloodshed from the NASA satellites! How dare you center yourself in such a way while people are being raped and killed?!

all of this 💯!!

don't tell me she's on here as well i thought this was just twitter sociopathy! 😭 me and countless sudanese mutuals were telling her to fuck off and she did an equally insufferable follow-up basically saying something like "people are misinterpreting me" no we're not!! beyond shameless.

my blood pressure hit the roof because do you know how much of a demon you must be to see people identifying corpses & blood stains seen from space & your 1st thought is "ok but nancy in oklahoma hasn't gotten a call from hr for posting about sudan so it's not so bad" why are you centring your CV?!

... that El Fasher was not defeated but betrayed [....]

Glory and immortality to the martyrs

Glory to those who remained steadfast to the very end..."

For those interested, I have been working for quite some time on a bibliography for modern Sudanese history. The PDF is freely available (www.academia.edu/121191857/CBSH_v1_07_24_) and I have also created a Zotero group open to everyone. This is still a work in progress.

thanks for sharing!

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...)

(h/t @coloursburntin.bsky.social)
bsky.app/profile/colo...

Yes pls - thanks so much for sharing

Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/