The Forgotten Crisis in Sudan

Adela is a big fan of the Bradford Literature Festival and has been attending for many years! She is an international breaking-news reporter for The Washington Post based in London. Previously, she has worked for NBC News, Al Jazeera English, Thomson Reuters and The Associated Press. She is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, with a degree in Law, and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Before pivoting to journalism, she spent four years as an international corporate lawyer in London, Dubai and Libya. Adela is interested in China and Africa and has traveled to more than 70 countries, including reporting trips to Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Jordan, the United States and much of Europe. Adela grew up in Manchester, Kent and London but also spent long stints in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, where her father was born.

Hamid Khalafallah is a development practitioner, researcher and policy analyst. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester, researching democratic transitions and grassroots movements in Africa. Before that, he worked for various international organisations, working on governance and development issues in Sudan. Hamid holds a master’s degree in International Development from the University of Bradford, where he studies as a Chevening Scholar and was awarded the 2019 UK Development Studies Association dissertation prize. Hamid’s research interests include participatory governance, democratisation processes, citizen-state engagement and inclusive development.

Jamal Mahjoub is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he was raised in Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. He has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands. His novels include Travelling with Djinns and The Drift Latitudes. Under the pseudonym Parker Bilal he is the author of the Inspector Makana crime series and, most recently, the Crane and Drake series. His latest non-fiction book, A Line in the River, was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.