Music; Sudan musicians: Puritanical regime targets artists in name of 'morals'
BBC News Africa [Nov29,2k10]29 November 2010 Last updated at 05:39 ET
Sudan musicians fear
return to the 'Stone Age'
Sudan's musicians have gone from persecuted outcasts to high-profile stars. Now, as a referendum on the south's possible independence approaches, there are fears that the same combination of ideology and politics might send them packing again, writes the BBC's James Copnall in Khartoum.
When hardline Islamists took control of Sudan in 1989, they made it clear that a lot of music was not acceptable.
"Women and the arts are the two great casualties of the Islamists," says Sudanese human rights activist Albaqir Alafif Mukhtar.
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