Sudan on Our Mind with Isma'il Kushkush and Mosaab Baba

Isma'il Kushkush is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Smithsonian, The Nation, Guernica, the Associated Press and others. He was based in Khartoum, Sudan, for eight years, and for two seperate three-month periods he was acting bureau chief for the New York Times in East Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. He received a master of arts degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School in New York. He was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.

Mosaab Baba is a media trainer, technical consultant and curriculum designer who has worked extensively with civil society, media, NGOs and human rights groups in Africa, with a main focus on Sudan. Mosaab has also been involved in the prod-democracy movement in the past with…