Love Song for Sudan

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hana is trying to enjoy the Sudanese music she loves, but something isn’t feeling right. The war in Sudan continues, and has destroyed with it a lot of the country’s cultural landscape, including places where the country’s music once lived. She’s wondering - what will happen to Sudan’s musical heritage? She talks it out with Leila and with Haneen Sidahmed - someone who is preserving music on her site Sudan Tapes Archive, plus she visits a Sudanese choir that’s singing the classics in California.

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0:00.0	Hey Hannah.
0:01.0	Hey, Lila?
0:02.0	So Lila, I want you to listen to something with me.
0:06.0	Oh, Rima Bansa.
0:08.0	O'Rima Bansa.
0:11.0	Uh-n-n-a-a-a. O-a-a. O-a-a-a-a. O-a-a-a. O-a-a-a. um-ri-ma-banza?
0:17.0	Oh my-ma-banza?
0:18.0	What's that mean?
0:20.0	So this is one of my favorite Sudanese songs.
0:23.2	I have it on cassette tape.
0:25.5	It's a classic.
0:26.2	It's by Abdelgadir Salim.
0:29.0	And it's called, you're right, you said it.
0:31.2	Oh, me re-ma-Benza. And that means I'll never forget. You're right, you said it. Um, Rumrima Benza.
0:33.2	And that means I'll never forget her.
0:35.9	I love
0:47.2	song with a little bit of beep and bob to it I love the violins and the guitar
0:52.3	this is cute I like it. So the guitar it's called
0:56.4	Oude. Ood, okay. Yeah.
0:59.3	Hmm. Wait, okay, energy has shifted with you. What's going on? You love this song.
1:09.0	Yeah, you know, it feels good, it feels nostalgic and yeah I love the song but as I'm listening
1:18.5	there's this other feeling creeping in I don't know I can't help it. What is it? What's wrong? I mean I'm just
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