This week marks the 55th anniversary of Sudan's anti-communist campaigns and massacre, which took place in July 1971. Some readings on the topic and events leading up to this and immediate aftermath🧵
notes on sudan
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union official, labour histories.
anyway thank god the little shits didn't win my gosh
what the hell is this superbowlification? this isn't proper football man.
As far as I'm concerned this is the World Cup final!!
deleting all tweets/reposts on the other app judging people for supporting england over drc so that i can support england over argentina in peaceful hypocrisy 👍🏾
this game is wasted on the US man, they had us out here fighting for our lives watching games at 1am and racing home at 5pm and the americans are barely watching smh
Senegal was the first to gain independence, as I was saying!!! 🇸🇳 bsky.app/profile/note...
notes on sudan@notesonsudan.bsky.social · last mo.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 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
spent 70 mins messaging everyone that drc was first african country to gain independence & i stand by it!! bsky.app/profile/note...
notes on sudan@notesonsudan.bsky.social · last mo.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 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
ghanaian self-declared witch doctor asleep at the wheel, zero sense of pan-africanism. fair play to kane.
they're scoring goals already and im still on the way home omg!!!!!
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...
Belfast: 'My life is threatened - there is no hope here'
Business owners express shock and heartbreak after disorder broke out in Belfast on Saturday.
bbc.co.uk
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...
BBC Four - Storyville, Khartoum
Against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, five Khartoum residents search for freedom.
bbc.co.uk
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).
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...
