One of the most common questions I am asked about the two year long war in Sudan is why it is a ‘forgotten’ conflict, why the world chooses to ‘ignore’ it.
On my kinder days, I have thoughtful, intellectual answers to provide. The attention of leaders and the public are stretched, I say. It is difficult to get reportage from the ground.The legacy of imperialism and anti-Black sentiment. Centuries of storytelling by European colonisers depicting the ‘dark continent’ as one rife with violence and barbarity, as if it weren’t the Europeans visiting such depravity to our shores to begin with. That’s why, at least in part.