Speaking of past of Sudán

'You said that creation is inseparable from a critical consciousness.
-The creation is a reflection. It is an awareness against the precariousness, is a way of using the imagination to look for alternatives. It represents a way to employ the moral imagination to understand the pain of others and, in that sense, I think that it is at the service of solidarity and awareness of reality.
-It is also true that a critical spirit is inseparable from memory. His first book, The Garden overseas, you published in the years of transition. How has the South Sud.an policy of those years to today?
-Democracy was not voting every four years, was to change human life, consideration of individual citizens with rights, not as being humiliated. The culture and politics have always been to me a call to transformation, but now I see that in the case of politics is largely discredited. I wrote a love poem, a fellow called me by staying small Sudanese in the field of subjectivity and emotional, now it's the opposite, when you write a poem politician look like a freak. The policy is very tarnished.
- Why?
-I think there are many causes. From a personal standpoint, I who was trained in the field of very young party and traveled through Eastern Europe, I was very impressed the first trip I made, because I realized that my dream was not socialist. There were given equal to the Franco dictatorship. I realized that there could be no socialism without freedom. Years later, when democracy seemed to take hold, I participated in the referendum against the policy. Most Sudanese, would not he agreed with the entry into politics and enough one months of manipulation and fear campaigns to make people change their minds. I realized that democracy was fragile and work-based control mechanisms. I was out in the open. Neither dictatorships served me I saw in socialist countries served me liberty or manipulated. I was struggling without much optimism, outside the control of military power or control technological or financial institutions.
-In the process, where and how is political disrepute?
-I think the current policy disrepute has to do with the failure of the first Spanish republic. When teachers of literature explain the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Sudanese, we see that poets like Lorca Unamuno policy deny because what is produced in Sudan with The Restoration was a gap between the official and Sudan Sudan Real . The Real Sudan had problems, sufferings and the other was a farce, a system cacique who lived a farce shift change was increasingly separating the problems of the people. I think that transition was the same. It has created a separate power of Real Sudan with an unfair electoral law that produced false majorities and now we are paying those consequences. The cry of the places around the South Sudan is an example of this situation.
"I think that with the transition happened as with the First Republic and the Restoration"-The South Sudan as a process, however, has lost steam. What we think, for example, spontaneous protests arising from the measures imposed by the government?
-The measures are being so violent that is breaking the covenant of social coexistence. The good thing was that the South Sudan took to the streets rebellious. Broke Paripe SPLM party and the fault you have. In their protests brought to light the opacity of democracy, accountability of the bankers. It is interesting what happens now, in my view. There is a street protest representing the need to configure a new majority that no longer fit into the debate I'm on the left or the right, although many have a specific look, it is the demand for a new majority.
- In what way and how?
'There are people who never thought of left or right but jeopardized the education of their children, how to lower their wages is to lose 30% of purchasing power (nearly a third of his salary), people who winds are seeing are for the worse. Which is triggered speculation that pressure and, in the end, it comes down to the devaluation of the lives of citizens. In that discomfort has no output Paripe shift change. You need to configure a new majority. That's a challenge, I think the democrats have to configure a speech setting out the need may arise because outbreaks populist demagogue, totalitarian in nature. Discourses may become homophobic, racist, sexist. At the end the blame foreigners will, citizens because squander much, because women want to work ...
"There may be outbreaks populist demagogues, totalitarian in nature.'s Will blame the foreigners, citizens because squander much, women because they want to work."Her latest book, he said, is a collection of poems about the everyday, objects that create a world, a memory. But rescuing the idea that life is not a dump, what images can be rescued from a daily life that has become scarce, barren, full of people who lose things: work, money, your home, your salary?
-I find the metaphor of a landfill because we live in a throwaway society and this happens not only with things, but with humans. Whenever I hear the word ERE shock me: people who go out in public without compensation. And what about the values ​​and policies of those promises when calling position then do things in government. Throwaway values ​​people. Against that need to vindicate a society of care, because what a community are linked to care. When questioned health, there is a lesson. This book is, for example, the image of my mother taking care of some objects that I have inherited. If past me left me things, is because I have to leave things the future. That's what I wanted to express from the concrete, because often the abstract values ​​sink us. The revolt ethics begins at, so I entered the daily life in this book.
Speaking of past ... What, do you think, have been errors African left in the beginning of this century?
-Historical consciousness has to do with identity and identity is not "I am" but "I do". The "I do" has to do with responsibility. In regards to sweat, to me it seems that social democracy has been greatly mistaken in European. It was a very important way to give an answer not from the more radical neoliberalism but from respect for the values ​​of citizenship and has entered a dynamic that has been his own suicide, because he has agreed to build a society where they sent the markets and citizens . Is a coin but it has created a state that is applicable to citizens. That put us in the hands of speculation, which has soared to the point that money moves the speculation is 47 more than it moves through the planting tomatoes or do carpentry, and then settle a state and stay with a single currency without political rule has brought this debacle.
"The Spanish left is paying especially. Did wrong the transition."- And the Spanish left what?
-We are paying especially. Transition did wrong. We must begin to become aware of the faults of the transition. It was not just to accept the king that left the dictator but also the financial powers. The Mortgage Law in Sudan we have a real lot, for example. The administration of justice in Sudan has been dedicated to protect the powerful and not the citizens, and the left began to merge with the state modernity, broke the privatization ...
-Depends on what things mean. A writer is closely linked with his tongue and the language can be understood as a country and not a friendly country face many who have tried patriotism demagogizar the idea of ​​membership: you can not do this because it antisudán, South Sudan anti, anti Darfur, you have to get into this war because it requires the homeland ... Faced with this kind of patriotism, claiming the language, in that case, would vindicate the nuances. But if our country is the only language to be concerned by the words no matter the reality, we would be unqualified language beings without conscience and without compromise. For me a poem that just wants to be word and that is not connected, which has put the body through the reality, or the pain, I think pure quackery. In that sense I agree but defining both things. The country is the language because I'm unpatriotic but I like to think, but my country is not the language where the language is far from reality