Fifty shades of black in Sudan
Woman with henna-painted hands in Sudan, February 11, 2005. Photo by Steve Evans on Flickr(CC BY 2.0.) This article was written by Weam Al-Bashir and was originally published on Raseef22 on March 19, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, were the words: “Our daughter is blue.” He had intended to send it to his siblings in Sudan with one of the pilgrims returning from Mecca, along with a letter announcing the arrival of his new “blue” ba...