The World Writes About Sudan… But Do We Write About Ourselves?!

By / Ethar Abdelhamid

The world writes about us as it pleases it chooses its angles frames its headlines and projects its narratives upon us but the question that still hangs in the sky of Sudanese media remains where are we in telling our own story ..

Since the outbreak of crises in Sudan screens and websites have been filled with Western reports speaking of war famine displacement and collapse words that reduce a nation to a single tragic image as if this great country were nothing but a landscape of pain yet behind every image of destruction are faces that keep life going a farmer who never left his land a teacher giving lessons under a tent a doctor healing the wounded in a hospital without light who owns the story of Sudan

Foreign media cannot be blamed alone it writes from its own perspective based on the images and information it receives the fault also lies with us with our silence our absence from the field and our surrender to being spectators in a story where we are the main characters we must reclaim our right to write about ourselves not to beautify or distort but to tell the truth that rescues memory from oblivion

Sudanese media between absence and challenge Sudanese journalism is going through a difficult phase yet it holds immense human potential the young people documenting events with their phones the women journalists writing from the heart of the field and the writers striving to preserve the image of a nation from distortion they are the true voice of Sudan but they need support training and free platforms that allow expression beyond restrictions and interests

When we write the scene changes when we write the full truth appears we write about suffering yes but also about resilience we write about loss but we do not forget courage we write about a nation that still lives despite the bleeding because we believe that the pen can overcome silence

Nafaj Al-Amal ..

the gateway of hope we write through Nafaj Al-Amal to glimpse the horizons of a brighter tomorrow one that came at a heavy cost yet remains deeply rooted in our Sudanese nature filled with faith that the future will be better for as the Prophet said all the affairs of the believer are good let writing be an act of faith and a seed of hope in a land worn by sorrow but never stripped of hope …

The story of Sudan can only be told by Sudanese pens the world needs to hear our voice not the echo of others our next mission must be to write not to justify but to document because writing about our homeland is not a luxury it is responsibility memory and resistance .