Unity High: Part 1

Kerning Cultures

Kerning Cultures Network

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Last year, our producer Darah Ghanem stumbled upon an obscure blog on a nearly forgotten corner of the internet. On it were hundreds of historic photographs of a Christian missionary school in Khartoum called Unity High School. But as she looked closer, she started to see something else: the blog's writers were trying to tell the world about an alleged corruption scandal that they thought had taken place at the school nearly a decade ago. This week on Kerning Cultures, a story of loose ends, conflicting sources, and half-truths. Part 1 of 2.

This episode was produced by Darah Ghanem and Alex Atack, with editorial support from Dana Ballout and Hebah Fisher. Fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar, sound design by Alex Atack and mixing by Mohamed Khreizat. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.

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0:00.7	Hey, it's Hibba Fisher, and this is Kurning Cultures. Welcome to the first episode of our summer season.
0:08.5	We missed you guys. It's been hard to take a break from making these episodes for you, but I think this season has some of our best, most ambitious stories yet.
0:19.4	We're so excited to share them with you. Today on Kroning
0:22.6	cultures, we have a story that we started working on months ago in September 2019, actually,
0:28.4	and at first we thought it'd be a straightforward story. We'd be able to have it out in a couple of
0:33.0	months. But as we started to report it, it took us on a totally different journey from the one we had
0:38.7	expected.
0:40.0	Producers Dora Gennem and Alex A-Tack have obsessed over this story for months, and I think
0:46.4	where we've ended up is unlike anything we've done before.
0:50.1	To do it justice, we're going to tell you this story over the next two episodes.
0:54.4	Here are Dora and Alex now.
0:56.7	Well, if you're ready, should we just stop?
0:59.2	Yeah, let's do it.
1:00.3	All right.
1:01.3	As best you can, can you tell me how you found the story?
1:06.0	Okay, so I was really interested in looking at historical archives from the Middle East and North Africa.
1:14.2	Dara is a photographer, and a lot of her work involves recovering and sharing these obscure or forgotten archive photography from around the region.
1:23.2	And so one of the countries I was really interested in looking at its past and its history was Sudan,
1:30.3	mostly because there aren't a lot of archives and images out there of it. And so I went on this
1:37.3	like hunt and I would enter different like keywords into Google like old picture Sudan or Sudanese archives, Sudan colonial history. And I kept
1:47.8	noticing that this archive from one of Sudan's most well-known high schools kept coming up.
1:54.2	And so I was like, okay, let me just like click on this. It looks like a blog out of the late 2000s.
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