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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 2d

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. 🗃️📜📷📸

Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 2d

A new ODNB article from me - James Francis [Jimmy] Durham, formerly Mustapha, a Sudanese boy 'adopted' in 1886 into the Durham Light Infantry. A tale of class and race, geography and the armed forces, music, and goodwill amidst the imperial assumptions: www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1...

www.oxforddnb.com

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 15d

One of the things about grief that I'm never going to get used to is people assuming that hearing stories about the most important person in my life is something that invariably makes me sad/something I want to avoid, and that I somehow forget my dad is dead until they mention him.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 16d

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

Photograph shows a young Sudanese man praying, and a group of young displaced Sudanese men in the background.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

Current exhibition | LSE Library

Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

www.lse.ac.uk

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · Aug 16

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...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 10

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.

Map showing European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884. Sketched by hand.

Map illustrating countries represented at the Bandung conference, 1955. Sketched by hand.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 7

100%. Tired of being subjected to half baked theories every month that basically suggest the lack of empathy is because we've not posted enough videos of our dead and dying.

notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 6

awful

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 2

I read that Bernard-Henri Levy article on Sudan. I have so many thoughts but..... do you know how much of an OG orientalist you must be to make the country I was born in and spent formative years sound like a mystical alien place to ME??

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gentle reminder that whilst yes, western media is generally shit on Sudan, there are plenty of bilingual Sudanese media outlets that also publish articles in English that you can read. bsky.app/profile/note...

notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm seeing non-Sudanese on here say they don't know where to get daily news reports on Sudan - Sudanese outlets that also report in English include: Radio Dabanga, Ayin Network, and Sudan Tribune (links: www.dabangasudan.org/en, 3ayin.com/en/, sudantribune.com). 1/

Dabanga Radio TV Online - Latest Sudan News

www.dabangasudan.org

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jul 29

I put Sudan in the search box and the results were largely Americans talking about deporting Trump & Republicans to Sudan/South Sudan........... 😑 there's gotta be a way to block posts from the US showing up.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jul 28

i follow like 5 americans on this app how the hell is my feed so us-centric omg

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jul 27

I wrote this four years ago to mark the 50th anniversary of Sudan's communist massacres. On the immediate aftermath and experiences of those incarcerated in Sudan's infamous Kober prison. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43128

Prison Memories: Sudanese Communists and the Aftermath of July 1971 in Kober

In his memoirs on his time in Kober prison, the late Sudanese historian and Marxist Mohammed Saeed Gaddal recalls being alerted by urgent shouts from fellow inmates that a statement from Major Hashim ...

www.jadaliyya.com

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jul 20

happy birthday fanon 🎈

Excerpt from the Wretched of the Earth which states to politicise the masses "means driving home to the masses that everything depends on them, that if we stagnate the fault is theirs, and that if we progress, they too are responsible..."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 29

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.

“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

www.washingtonpost.com

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jun 28

I used to walk past this site on an almost daily basis and play football there as a kid. It's now effectively a cemetery because the risks of reaching formal burial grounds were too high. "To walk any distance was to risk being killed by the constant shelling."
sudantribune.com/article302188/

In Khartoum Bahri, returning residents find neighbourhoods turned to graveyards - Sudan Tribune

June 23, 2025 ( KHARTOUM BAHRI) – When Mohammed Abbas tried to return to his family’s neighbourhood, his goal was not to reclaim a home but to move a grave. His brother, a casualty of Sudan’s brutal w...

sudantribune.com

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Jun 15

❤️ love today to everyone who has had to bury their father alone in a strange land because of the war, or who hasn't been able to bury them or locate their remains because of the war, or who hasn't been able to visit their grave because of the war ❤️

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · May 9

Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........

notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · May 9

(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · May 9

If you're in Berlin next week, there's a screening of this documentary by displaced Sudanese filmmakers which premiered at the Sundance Festival earlier this year & follows five residents during the war (I haven't seen it yet but want to www.goethe.de/prj/gex/en/v...).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMyt...

KHARTOUM (2025) | Official Trailer

YouTube video by NativeVoiceFilms

m.youtube.com

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · May 5

Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · May 1

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 🌹

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