Sudan archives preserves music from across the decades and continents

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A Sudanese American woman in Sacramento is digitizing cassettes recorded with classic Sudanese songs going all the way back to the 1960s. In the process, she’s created a music archive called Sudan Tapes Archive that more and more people are accessing. Reporter Hana Baba, of station KALW explains the work has taken on new urgency as war rages in Sudan. (Originally aired April 2, 2024.)

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