Kandaka — The Sudan Knowledge Platform
Named for the Kandakas — the warrior queens of ancient Nubia — this site brings their spirit of clarity and resolve to today's questions about Sudan. Articles and analysis on the country's economy and development, alongside reflections on its past, culture, and the people who shape its future.
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Sudan’s Peace Process Is Negotiating a War That No Longer Exists
Fears of a massacre in this city on the front line of Sudan's war
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Sudan in Images
Sudan, Nubian pyramids (31444824291)
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Kerma city
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Faras capitel
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From the Library
All books →The Nile Bride Myth Revisioned in Nubian Literature
Manfred B. Steger; Ravi K. Roy
A scholarly examination of the Nile bride sacrifice myth as it appears and is reinterpreted in modern Nubian …
The Kushite Pottery Sequence at Kawa: Parallels at Home and Abroad
Michaela Riva Gaaserud
Ceramic typological study of Kushite pottery from the site of Kawa tracing connections to other Sudanese and …
Evaluating Nubian Population Structure from Cranial Nonmetric Traits
David Kessler
Bioarchaeological analysis of Nubian skeletal populations using cranial morphology to assess gene flow and …