‘I wasn’t remotely interested – let alone involved – in political activism,’ says Sudan’s pioneer female graffiti artist Assil Diab, ‘until I felt the first stirrings of the uprising against [President of Sudan] Omar al-Bashir in 2012-2013. That was my political awakening.’
Diab aka SudaLove had quite a privileged upbringing. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, where her father was the Ambassador for Sudan and her mother a senior doctor. She grew up mostly between the US and Qatar, where she attended the