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From Prison Residency To Presidency

By Dr. Ahmed Gumma Siddiek I In an endless horizon, In a lonely Zone The Robben Island stood alone Amid an angry water, Where nothing to see But an endlessness angry...

Message to General Burhan of Sudan

By Dr. Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek General,  I am very fond of those stripes  On your chest and shoulder, with different sizes  ...

Peter Magubane: courageous photographer who chronicled South Africa’s struggle for freedom

Peter Magubane documented black life and resistance in South Africa. Peter Magubane/PMHA/Courtesy the Magubane family By Kylie Thomas Peter Sexford Magubane, a courageous South African photographer whose...

John Hlatywayo: remembering a great Zimbabwean artist who was woefully neglected by history

By Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti John Hlatywayo, who has died at 96, was a great painter, sculptor and mentor. However he is woefully neglected in the...

Dreams of a boy from Darfur

By Dr. Ahmed Gumaa SiddiekI dream of a new black suitWith a long tail and a leather bootAnd two socks, the size of my...

Dreams of a girl from Darfur

A poem by Dr. Ahmed Gumma Siddiek I dream of a morning full with peaceWith no planes on my head shooting my placeI dream of...

In Sudan’s Dogs’ shitter: illusion and disillusionment

Pain filled a theatre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where three Sudanese directors in exile were showing their films earlier last month. Tears were...

Dear Sniper

The poem by Dr. Ahmed Gumma Siddiek “Snipers were everywhere on the rooftops and we could not stay there.”_ A resident of Khartoum. “Sniper!I am...

Sudans national heritage is in danger

Sudan is undergoing a war of destruction, with not only a humanitarian crisis and destruction of infrastructure, but also the historical works of art...

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