Amado Alfadni
Amado Alfadni is an Egyptian-born Sudanese visual artist; his work discusses the relationship between the included and the excluded, opening dialogue on issues of identity and politics. By working with forgotten historical events and current state policies, he raises questions of power dynamics between the individual and authority on a social and political level.
His recent work is based on research and documentation of ignored historical events, especially colonial history and re-reading it from the perspective of the native.
His recent work is based on research and documentation of ignored historical events, especially colonial history and re-reading it from the perspective of the native.
Askari
Askari discusses the colonial Egyptian and European military slavery in the region of the Sudan, by representing the colonial Askari images of Sudanese military slavery in the Egyptian and British colonies in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Adding background motifs assembled from stamps of the era, letters were written by people at the time, or 'tazkarat horeya'-freedom passes — that were given out to Sudanese people in Egypt to indicate the end of their service as slaves.
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*African soldiers serving in the armies of the colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast and Central Africa
Askari discusses the colonial Egyptian and European military slavery in the region of the Sudan, by representing the colonial Askari images of Sudanese military slavery in the Egyptian and British colonies in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Adding background motifs assembled from stamps of the era, letters were written by people at the time, or 'tazkarat horeya'-freedom passes — that were given out to Sudanese people in Egypt to indicate the end of their service as slaves.
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*African soldiers serving in the armies of the colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast and Central Africa