I grew up partly in early 1990s pre-oil boom pre-air con Sudan where we had an average of maybe 4-6 hours electricity a day and I still don't know if I can survive another night of this hellfire in London omg what is this??

Telling Ghanian friends that if they win today I'm gonna let them claim they were the first to gain independence bla bla without arguing w them (for 12 whole months), let's goooo 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

I remember reading and watching this story about a Sudanese cafe and Syrian restaurant being burnt to ashes by racists in 2024. 2-3 pogroms later (genuinely losing count now) and journalists and politicians from across party lines continue to contribute to this climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For Pride Month, Radical Online Archives has many collections of LGBTQ+ historical documents from across the world listed. Here is a selection of those listed. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

(every line i read from that prize winning story granta published is like if someone tried to parody postcolonial literature, which says a lot about what certain people class as good writing emerging from the global south)

Loaning out some prints relating to prisons in Sudan to a couple of Sudanese orgs for an upcoming exhibition and was all like "sure you can use them just pls be careful" anyway managed to spill tea on the edge of one of them within 2 hours of taking them out of storage 👍🏾

Finally a chance to see much-praised documentary ‘Khartoum’, streaming on BBC4 tonight and then on iPlayer (in UK). #Sudan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Exhibition funding opportunity for Sudanese visual artists who have been displaced by the war and are currently located in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan or Uganda. If you know any Sudanese who might be interested, please share - details and link below: www.goethe.de/resources/fi...

If you're in Kigali, this exhibition of photographs by Ammar Yassir tracing his displacement through multiple cities as a result of the war in Sudan is launching on 23rd March and will run until 2nd April.

I've read several (important) articles about Sudanese who were under consideration for UK scholarships and insist they'd return. I haven't seen these mention what happened to those who returned, like former Chevening scholar Alwaleed Abdeen who was imprisoned & starved to death by the RSF last year.

(deleting this but i know we talk about how X has gone all rightwing fash but lots of leftists there have also lost their damn minds. like self-described "anti-imperialists" making the case for child marriage & annihilating minorities in the region omg u can just oppose war like a normal person!!)

(I really want to sign up to the various statements being sent to me re: condemning the suspension of student visas for Sudanese and others but can people please stop using terms like "best and brightest" to describe those affected)

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).

This is awful and this quote is despicable. bsky.app/profile/fina...

Everything about that BAFTA clip is horrible especially for MBJ and Delroy and BAFTA handled it terribly. At the same time, the ignorance that highly educated Americans seem to have about disabilities and the fact that they can actually manifest in deeply horrible ways is stunning.

Today marks 14 years since Mohammed Wardi - Sudan's most beloved musician - passed away. I wrote a thread on how he narrated Sudan's history from antiquity to recent revolutions on the other app a few years ago, before the war. Since then, his son reported that his oud was stolen by the RSF...

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 ❤️‍🩹

Jesus Christ. Reports that more than 300 inmates have died in Shala prison in Darfur in the last two months. www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundred...

Films by the lovely people from the Sudanese Film Group are now on Criterion (link: www.criterionchannel.com/sudanese-fil...)

These two amazing South Sudanese friends - Giel Malual and John Kuei - are walking the length of the UK in freezing weather (set off on 23 Dec) to raise money for displaced Sudanese children in refugee camps in Chad. Link here you're able to support and/or repost: www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-w...

The woman in the video is the late Hawa al-Tagtaga 💚💙💛. She was arrested multiple times and imprisoned for her anti-colonial activism and music. Although the footage is in B&W, her famous toab first worn here is in the colours of the old Sudanese flag (blue, yellow & green). bsky.app/profile/chri...

Love Gramsci but that "I hate New Year's Day" column of his that always circulates at this time of year is (in my opinion) God awful.

Sudanese labourers excavating wall art (the first depicts the birth of Jesus) from what was Faras cathedral in medieval Nubia, parts of which ended up in the (recently looted) Sudan National Museum.

London yesterday (📸 by Martin Gavin) #Sudan

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵

Scanning today 📜

This article captures a phenomenon that's not uncommon but hasn't really been covered in a lot of analysis on the war: young former revolutionaries who marched against the army 6 years ago joining the army or aligned group since the war. "From revolutionary to soldier": 3ayin.com/en/albarabin...

MPs were briefed that 60,000 people killed in 3 weeks is the "low" estimate... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rare for me to defend Arab TV but one of the things about being in Cairo is that most Arabic language news channels - eg Aljazeera mubashar, Al Hadath - actually report daily and in-depth on Sudan. And regularly have analysts actually based in Sudan on their news shows.

dick cheney was still alive?????

If you're in London, this documentary is screening tomorrow at Curzon (Bloomsbury): www.curzon.com/films/dochou... bsky.app/profile/note...

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?!

I reactivated twitter for four days before deactivating again. It wasn't even the direct racism & nazi shit but that as blood and corpses flooded El Fasher, Americans/Brits were doing up "no one is getting called up by HR for posting about Sudan though" - that algorithm rewards sociopaths.

Resistance committees reporting hundreds of unaccompanied young children arriving from El Fasher who lost their families in the last few days. I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.

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". bsky.app/profile/note...

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...

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.

I wish people had listened to our journalists in El Fasher before they were captured and disappeared, and I wish people had listened to our revolutionaries before they were executed.

$53 (USD) for a single kilogram of rice in El Fasher.....

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.

🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.

Trade Union Act 2016 bsky.app/profile/unen...

I do not like the way people are increasingly acting like I'm the weird one for not using ChatGPT.....

Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸

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

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

If you can, please join me in donating and also share x bsky.app/profile/bson...

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

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.