Our Story

Founded in 2016, the Nogara Project emerged as a response to the systematic marginalization of Sudan’s cultural and musical diversity. For over three decades, official narratives tried to silence the voices of many regions replacing cultural diversity with one narrow identity.

Nogara was born to change that. We collect, record, and share the endangered sounds of Sudan from the deserts of Darfur to the Nile valleys and the Red Sea coast ensuring that these rhythms live on, not as memories, but as moving forces for justice and peace.

Through workshops, collaborations, and performances, Nogara empowers displaced artists to continue creating, no matter where they are. Each song, each rhythm, is a declaration that our culture survives and through it, our hope endures.

After the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023, Nogara began a new chapter. using art not only as a form of expression, but as a tool for rebuilding, healing, and unity. We are developing spaces and facilities where displaced artists can record and produce songs that carry messages of peace and togetherness. By drawing on our collective memory and shared cultural roots, we aim to rebuild the social fabric torn apart by conflict and restore a sense of belonging and hope.

Nogara stands as a voice for the voiceless transforming loss into creativity, pain into rhythm, and silence into song. Through partnerships and collaboration, we invite cultural institutions, donors, and individuals to join us in keeping these voices alive, ensuring that Sudan’s recovery begins not only with reconstruction, but with reconciliation through art.