(a year ago)
April 15, 2024 marked the one year anniversary of the current civil war in Sudan. Largely ignored and underreported in the US media, the civil war has created the largest current humanitarian crisis on earth with over 8 million people displaced, with over 2 million people having fled the country according to the United Nations. The civil war comes in the wake of a glorious democratic revolution in 2018-2019 that was led by a broad multi-ethnic people’s movement that ended a 30 year dictatorship. However, the people’s movement was denied the full fruit of its sacrifices by the Sudanese military and its US, European, and Arab benefactors who wanted to limit or outright deny the democratic aspirations of the people to retain control over the Sudan’s strategic resources and geo-political positioning, and to deny the African and Arab worlds of a present day example of direct democracy and liberation.
A Revolution Betrayed will be a discussion about the Sudanese revolution, counter-revolution and civil war and its global implications and impact. We will be holding this discussion with renowned Sudanese-American journalist Isma’il Kushkush.
Isma'il Kushkush is a Sudanese-American journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Smithsonian, The Nation, Guernica, and others. He was based in Khartoum for eight years, and was acting bureau chief for The New York Times in East Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. He received a bachelors of arts degree in history and international relations from the University of California, Davis, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East and a master of arts degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School in New York with a focus on politics and global affairs. He was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.