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Shaden Muhammad al-Hassan (1986 – 12 May 2023), also known as Shaden Gardood or al-Hakama Shaden, was a Sudanese singer and peace advocate who was killed during the
2023 Sudan conflict An armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began on 15 April 2023, when clashes broke out in cities, with the fighting concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum and the Darfur region. As of 27 May, at le ...
.


Biography


Early life and education

Shaden Muhammad al-Hassan was born in
El-Obeid El-Obeid ( ar, الأبيض, ''al-ʾAbyaḍ'', lit."the White"), also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kurdufan, in Sudan. History and overview El-Obeid was founded by the pashas of Ottoman Egypt in 1821. It was ...
,
North Kordofan North Kordofan ( ar, شمال كردفان, Šamāl Kurdufān) is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 185,302 km2 and an estimated population of 2,920,890 (2008 census) (3,340,000 (2011 estimate)). El-Obeid is the c ...
, Sudan in 1986. She studied economics at
Omdurman Ahlia University Omdurman Ahlia University (OAU) is a community non-profit university in Omdurman, Sudan. It was opened on 1 November 1986 as Omdurman Ahlia College, and was upgraded to University status on 7 May 1995. As of September 2011, the university was a ...
, but moved towards performing art, especially the folk and heritage singing of the Kordofan region.


Career

Gardood advocated for peace and justice through her songs and lyrics. This is why she was also known as "'' al-Hakama''", a title which is given to a group of women in
Darfur Darfur ( ; ar, دار فور, Dār Fūr, lit=Realm of the Fur) is a region of western Sudan. ''Dār'' is an Arabic word meaning "home f – the region was named Dardaju ( ar, دار داجو, Dār Dājū, links=no) while ruled by the Daju, ...
and Kordofan, who are respected for their poetry and singing. ''Hakamat'' have been invited by
peacebuilding Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict. It revolves around developing constructive personal, group, and pol ...
initiatives in Darfur and also exert power over men in their societies. Since the outbreak of the conflict, she regularly posted videos and messages on
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about the clashes and shelling in her Omdurman neighbourhood, and wrote intensively against the war. Gardood had a prominent role in advocating for popular groups opposed to military rule, and had shared her songs with the peaceful demonstrators during the
Sudanese Revolution The Sudanese Revolution was a major shift of political power in Sudan that started with street protests throughout Sudan on 19 December 2018 and continued with sustained civil disobedience for about eight months, during which the 2019 Sudane ...
that managed to overthrow the regime of Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for three decades. She was present with her songs at the
sit-in A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. The protestors gather conspicuously in a space or building, refusing to mo ...
at the army command, which was organised by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to demand civil rule, after the fall of Al-Bashir and the seizure of power by the army leaders.


Death

Gardood was mortally wounded and died during the
Battle of Omdurman The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief (sirdar) major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the M ...
in the 2023 Sudan conflict on 12 May 2023. She lived near the national television and radio building, which was a spot of heavy fighting from the first day of the conflict. The building was held by the RSF, who were often attacked from the ground and air by the
Sudanese Army The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; ar, القوات المسلحة السودانية, Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan. In 2011, IISS estimated the regular forces' numbers at personnel, whil ...
. Shortly before she died, she posted a video telling her son to stay away from their windows.


See also

* Music of Sudan - The role of women in traditional music * Asia Abdelmajid * Omer Ihsas


References

1986 births 2023 deaths 21st-century Sudanese singers 21st-century Sudanese women singers People killed in the Sudanese civil war (2023−present) People from North Kurdufan {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardood, Shaden