When it comes to Sudan’s developing media industry, as well as its thriving music scene, a name that usually pops up is Ahmad Hikmat, popularly known as DJ Afrodiziac. The 33-year-old DJ wears many hats in...

Her face is bloody, bruised, and distorted. However, it’s not real. It’s just makeup – mind-boggling special effects makeup (SFX). In recent years, SFX makeup has become a well-admired and sought-after career and talent. This field...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed offered many people – fortunate enough – around the world an opportunity to stay home and stay safe. Social media feeds have been flooded with pictures of how...

In January 2020, pictures of five severely malnourished lions in Al Qurashi Family Park in Khartoum went viral on social media, bringing international attention and aid to save the lions and other mistreated animals at the...

Hailing from Sudan is 38-year-old Hiba Rasheed, a spoken word and slam poet, research manager and mother based in Dubai, the UAE. She recently won the Rooftop Rhythms Grand Slam Poetry 2020, the Middle East’s longest-running...

One of the leading figures of women activism in Sudan is Hala Al Karib, a Sudanese activist for women’s rights in Sudan and the Horn of Africa, and the Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for...

Mental health has been a crucial topic in recent years. It’s even more crucial today as the world deals with a pandemic leaving people locked away in their homes as an attempt to curb the spread...

In recent years, art has converged with fashion, going hand in hand in the evolution of apparel. We’ve seen it in some of the world’s most loved fashion brand names such as Prada, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Andy Warhol and...

After pictures of five severely malnourished lions in Al Qurashi Family Park went viral on social media on 19 January 2020, launching the #SudanAnimalRescue campaign, FOUR PAWS, an international animal welfare organisation, has traveled to Sudan...

Hailing from South Sudan by way of the Kakuma Refugee Camp is 22-year-old stand-up comedian Akau Daniel Jambo Poundak, better known as Ak Dans or ‘The Woke Refugee’. Ak was born in the Kakuma Refugee Camp...