"I am tired of singing about war and reconciliation. I want these wars in Sudan to stop once and for all so that I can compose songs about love," says popular Sudanese artist Viviana Nyachan Chwoy.

Friday night by the Nile, and a love song wafted on the warm breeze that blew across Tuti Island, a crescent of land at the confluence of the river’s two great branches.

0:20 The New York Times Then a love song rang out. Ibrahim Fahkreldin, a 20-year-old crooner, performed traditional Sudanese ballads as well as new songs about Sudan’s growing turmoil.

Parissa Tosif: When I first heard Athena by Sudan Archives, I was shocked because I’d never heard anything like it. Each song is so different to any other song in the universe and has a beauty ...

She told me she had written a new song to sing at Christmas. It is about love never ending. At some level, the Sudanese who go to other countries, including this one, carry the civil war with them.

Eujayl adds that archiving music is not only vital as a record of Sudan’s musical heritage but “it allows us to have a better idea of how people in Sudan lived and thought in the past.

AL DAEIN, Sudan -- It is difficult to unleash your inner Bob Marley in Sudan, but singer-songwriter Abazar Hamid is trying. He submits peace and love songs month after month to the government's ...

Sudan Archives. Photo by Ally Green. Brittney Parks, the violinist, singer, and producer, who records under the stage name Sudan Archives, has shared her new original song in three years.

At age 17, still living in Cincinnati, she told her mom that she didn't like her name; so, with a love for African jewelry and stylings, her mom gave her a new nickname, Sudan.