Culture

Having fled Sudan's besieged city of el-Fasher, a photographer turn his lens on more positive aspects of life.

Sudan already has a powerful indigenous sporting institution. The challenge is to honor Nuba wrestling, avoid false historical claims, and build a fair pathway from community arenas to international competition.

Sudan trained the actors, directors, and technicians who built a golden age of cinema and theatre -- then lost the schools, the studios, and now the buildings themselves. Nigeria, South Korea, India, Ghana, and Rwanda each built a creative industry from a comparable or worse starting point. The economics of doing the same in Sudan are larger than they look.

Sudan once had a thriving cinema culture that decades of state control, censorship, and war reduced to a single working theatre in Khartoum. Rebuilding fixed cinemas will take years the country doesn't have. A solar-powered projector van, tested for two decades across the rest of Africa, doesn't need to wait.

State Design Between Militarized Centralism and the Reproduction of Domination Nahid M.Elhassan — First: What Do We Mean by Structural Dysfunction? This article proceeds from a central premise of this book: Sudan’s crisis is not merely a matter of governmental performance failure, but rather an original design defect embedded within the structure of the …