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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Hidden Journey

    Noura’s camera captures the intimate moments of her displacement with sister Duha, as they flee war in Sudan to East Africa – a journey that…
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  • Cinema Behind Bars

    There are almost no cinemas in Sudan, but they did exist at one point. A cinema owner talks about better days.
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  • Rabbaba Man

    Rabbabas are traditional stringed instruments. The rabbabaman makes them and goes around selling them. A much-loved figure who keeps the old songs ali
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  • Nomads

    In Sudan even the best musicians have to moonlight to get by. When one group found employment as mechanics, their work became rhythmical.
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  • Number 12

    Here the ‘twelfth man’ i.e. the crowd who support the team really is just one man. He’s sort of the crowd’s coach. A good-natured agitator.
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  • Beyond Memory

    A girl sits alone in a room with her memories. She misses a man. Perhaps a dead soldier. Dreamy black-and-white.
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  • In Search of Hip-Hop

    You don’t expect to find hip-hop in Sudan. Everything God prohibited really is banned there. When you do find some, it is, at the very…
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  • You Will Die at Twenty

    Stunningly beautiful fable about the straitjacket of tradition and the call of freedom in Sudan. Coming-of-age with deep significance.
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  • Promenade du Sudan

    A whirlwind tour through one of the largest countries of Africa in five minutes, from frenetic sabre-wielding dancers to artisans working in a foundry
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  • Khartoum 1960

    Gubara captured an historic picture of Khartoum, revealing it to have a liveliness that has completely vanished today.
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