The area of Northern Sudan
and Southern Egypt is the land of the Nubians – an ancient people that go as
far back as the 8th century BC Kingdom of Kush. They built a flourishing
civilization along the Nile.
With the 1970 building of the
Aswan High Dam in Egypt came the flooding of the Nubian villages to the north
and south, and an exodus of refugees poured into both countries.
Today, many of the sons,
daughters and grandchildren of that displaced generation form a diaspora
scattered around the world. And some have continued to tell their story through
poetry, song and music in a Nubian arts revival of sorts right here in the
United States.
(In the photo above is one
of these artists, Mosno Elmoseeki, out of Baltimore. )
