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Arts Inspire Sudanese Pro-Democracy Activists to Keep Pushing

Mohammed Alamin

   KHARTOUM - Artists have celebrated and commemorated Sudan's revolution
   this year with murals and graffiti across the capital, Khartoum. Some
   of the murals were destroyed by security forces who killed dozens of
   protesters outside the national army headquarters in June. The murals
   are being re-created by painters who support the people's push for
   democracy and civilian rule.

   Soon after protests against longtime president Omar al-Bashir began in
   December, murals and graffiti appeared in Khartoum, especially in the
   flashpoint neighborhoods such as Burri, Shambat and Abaasiya.

   Graffiti artists drew the slogans of the protests, such as "Freedom,"
   "Peace," and "Justice."

   They also created expressive murals, calling for civilians to be part
   of a post-Bashir transitional government, and demanding the killers of
   the protesters be held to account.
   Pictures of those killed during the protests are everywhere.

   Sudanese artist Mohamed Ambadi says the artists are giving a vital and
   honest expression of the revolution, and archiving its history.

   He says that the project of painting in the walls is a spontaneous and
   popular project by the old and young artists and all those who
   attracted by the sense of the expression of these murals that have
   widely spread in different parts of the country."

   Amal Tag Aldin, a singer who said she supports the artists' campaign,
   said this activity is part of a reconstruction project that aims to
   clean up and beautiful neighborhoods not only in the capital but around
   the nation.

   We are marking the places where the marches were begun during the
   protests time and to remind the people that the these flashpoints areas
   have done a lot in the revolution, she says. So we want not just
   Khartoum but the entire cities in Sudan to be beautiful like Khartoum.
   

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