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Walls and revolution in Sudan: Street art and graffiti of the Sudanese revolution 2019
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2682-035X
University of Rennes 2, France.
2025 (English)In: Art Against Authoritarianism in South West Asia and North Africa / [ed] Tijen Tunali; Josepha Wessels, London: I.B. Tauris, 2025, p. 101-126Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The 2019 revolt in Sudan was seemingly the most successful uprising in the Arab world until the coup in 2021 and the outbreak of war in 2023. The Sudanese revolution of 2019 brought together a nationwide group of Sudanese youth who want change in their country. This chapter reflects on the various components of Sudan’s revolution which ousted its dictator Omar al-Bashir after decades of authoritarian rule. In the words of its own revolutionaries this is thanks to a strong commitment to non-violent values, a vibrant artistic public sphere on the streets and its connection to online digital dissidence. Visions for change can be seen and observed in the large body and collections of graffiti art and mural paintings throughout the public space in the city of Khartoum. Through extensive photographic documentation of revolutionary graffiti street art, ArcGIS story maps and interviewing young revolutionaries this study has documented graffiti and murals of the Sudanese revolution. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the ongoing resistance art in the increasingly difficult circumstances after the outbreak of war in Sudan in 2023 which is turning into a protracted conflict whereby artists and environmental activists are either forced to leave the country and continue their activism in a diasporic condition or to go underground inside Sudan.

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London: I.B. Tauris, 2025. p. 101-126
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Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Keywords [en]
Sudan, Graffiti, Art, Revolution, Khartoum
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Media and Communication Studies
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Urban studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-72699DOI: 10.5040/9780755650682.0014Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85211421363ISBN: 9780755650651 (print)ISBN: 9780755650682 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-72699DiVA, id: diva2:1920584
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Sustainable Sudan; documenting the past and visioning the future through graffiti and environmentalismAvailable from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2025-08-20Bibliographically approved

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