Cover of report: 'Criminalisation of Women in Sudan' from the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) and The Redress Trust. SSSUK joined the Centre for African Studies at SOAS, London, in organizing a seminar to help launch this report on 4th December 2017. The full text of the report is available at http://sihanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Criminalization-of-Women-in-Sudan.pdf. A brief report on the launch event is here.
DisclaimerThe assertions present on the poster are those of the AA Visiting School Khartoum, not of the SSSUK.
Cover of book by Fergus Nicoll (2018). Fully equal to the occasion: Frank Power and the Siege of Khartoum.This is SSSUK member Fergus Nicoll's latest volume of primary sources relating to the Mahdia. It is available only through Amazon. It follows Nicoll's earlier editions of Lt.-Col. Stewart and Maj.-Gen. Gordon. Nicoll tells us that for future publication (research funds permitting) he has been working on editions of Burdeini and Nusshi, as well as a translation of the French transcript of an important Egyptian trial in the aftermath of the Mahdi's victory.
Poster for arts season: "Sudan: Emergency of Singularities"
On 7 July 2016 The Guardian newspaper's Africa Network featured the work of a group of Sudanese and South Sudanese journalists, reporting on the issues facing their countries. "From clubbing to beauty politics, police crackdowns to the ongoing war in Darfur, their stories offer a new way to understand this under-reported region." The journalists whose work was featured are: Ahmad Abushakeema, Yousra Elbagir, Mohamed Hilali, Mariak Bol Majok, Opoka p'Arop Otto, Zeinab Mohammed Salih.
A list of international museum and archive holdings of books, documents, clothing, arms and armour relating to the Mahdīa period, compiled by Fergus Nicoll, author of Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars (2013), The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon (2004), and BBC journalist.