Winter/Spring 2026
Presented by The Africa Center and Bayan Abubakr, this three-session in-person workshop (with virtual streaming options for increased accessibility) offers a political education on the ongoing Sudanese revolution and explores the lessons that we can learn and un-learn from it, together. Please find the event details here.

Photo by Walaa Yassien.

This syllabus is a collection of (mostly) English-language writings on the April 15, 2023 counter revolutionary war in Sudan. This reading list was initially developed to complement the “Seeing the World Through Sudan: Critical Frameworks for Understanding the Crises of Sudan’s Counterrevolutionary Wars” conference which took place at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs on October 11 and 12, 2024. The syllabus is organized by the themes that frame the conference panels: land; revolution and counter revolution; solidarity and its discontents; the preservation of collective memory; and the archival politics and infrastructures of Sudanese music. Links to recordings of each of the panels are included under their respective headings. These readings were selected because they inculcate us with a language  that excavates Sudan’s layered histories, geographies, economies, and ideologies from the contradictions that define them. 

Oct 11 & 12, 2024
At the “Seeing the World through Sudan” conference, we focused on the history of violence shaping the ongoing war (and the genocides that it has perpetuated) in Sudan. Centering the voice and vantage points of Sudanese scholars, activists, and artists, these discussions collaboratively identified the necessary steps already taken and critically develop the ones yet needed to build a Sudan that can avow the vexed inheritances of the past, atone the failures of its post/colonial present, and forge the path toward a more revolutionary future. This workshop was accompanied by a film program of short films by Sudanese filmmakers and an exhibition by Sarah Elawad at the Brown Arts Institute (BAI).