NubiaFEST 2021

Join #NubiaFEST2021 online for a FULL week of live streaming September 12–18, 2021. A project by @NubiaInitiative & @4nubianstudies #NubiaConnects #NubaOune

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Shima Adil is a young woman who had to flee #Sudan, leaving everything behind. She’s been accepted to a Master’s program in the UK (we’ve got receipts). In order to register, we need to help her raise €6,000 by the end of this month.

Donate at: https://t.co/v1AwAXT9D9

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

We are saddened to see that our people are caught in the middle of a power struggle, especially during the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. It seems like a theme now that our people can not find peace during Ramadan.

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

We are proud of our heritage, culture, language, blackness and most of all, our Africanness.

#sudanindependenceday #Sudan #Sudanese #Nubian #Nubia #السودان #سودان #Africa #January1st

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Arab league and Arabism. As Nubians and indigenous people, while the pan-Arab flag may represent Sudan for many, we reject this flag as it represents a systematic erasure of our identity and the identities of many other ethnic groups within Sudan!

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Sahara desert, and the green, is for the green pastures that exist in the country. The current day flag which features the green triangle (not to be confused with the Palestinian red triangle flag) was adopted in 1979 as a pan-Arabist flag, and signaled an alignment with the

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Today, we recognize #Sudan and it’s #IndependenceDay!

You maybe asking yourself which flag is this and why are we using it? This is the first flag of Sudan, officially adopted on Independence Day in 1954 and used until 1970. The blue represents the Nile, the yellow is for the

[Ramey Dawoud | ⲣⲁ̄ⲙⲓ ⲇⲁ̄ⳣⲟⲩⲇ | 𐦫𐦠𐦨𐦢 𐦷𐦠𐦥𐦣𐦷 @RealRameyDawoud]

Honored to be a part of this festival. I will be speaking on my work in Nubian culture preservation and the role "minority" and indigenous cultures have played within the Islamic world. Get your tickets!

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Other Nubian contributors to revolutions via songs/poetry include Khalil Farah, Morsi Saleh Siraj, Mohamed Oscan Abdulraheem, and Muhyaldeen Farus.

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Mohamed Sirr Al-Khatim was an engineer who was in charge of mapping Khartoum. The English wanted Khartoum mapped a certain way, he refused and mapped Khartoum longitudinally, thus being dismissed from the service.

He would become the mastermind of the 1924 Revolution.

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

Mohamed Sirr Al-Khatim was a founding member of the White Flag Association/White Brigade Association, a group of military revolutionaries pushing for a free Sudan. Despite Ali Abdul-Latif and Khalil Farah being mentioned with this movement, Mohamed Sirr Al-Khatim was crucial.

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

As we cap off #NubianHeritageMonth, we introduce a little-known figure who held great importance in Sudan’s revolutionary history, via a contributory thread by Ustaz Elyas Khalil!

[NubiaFEST 2021 @nubiafest]

The role of Mohamed Sirr Al-Khatim, a Nubian military man in the 1924 Sudanese revolution!

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

As we cap off #NubianHeritageMonth, we introduce a little-known figure who held great importance in Sudan’s revolutionary history, via a contributory thread by Ustaz Elyas Khalil!

[NubiaFEST 2021 @nubiafest]

Powerful song about the flooding of Nubia!

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

This entry of #NubianSongLyrics is "Baboor Kosona". Baboor Kosona is a sad song about a person leaving to go visit home and as they board the ferry on the Nile they realize everything they had ever known is being flooded.

[TheKandakaOfficial @KandakaOfficial]

This classic song highlights the immense damage the Aswan High Dam caused Nubians living in the areas it flooded. Read along and enjoy!
Original video by @HatimAlTai2
Arabic and English translation by @ Nubian.language on IG
Nubian translation by us!