Credits

We would like to acknowledge the extraordinary courage and generosity of the community participants for sharing their memories. We thank them, their families and the Blacktown Sudanese community for supporting this project.

Makuei Ajak Ariik
Hermann Androga Awola
Charles Bak Chol Wol
Mary Bior
Abour (Grace) Jook
Prisca Kot
Mayor Makuei Chagai
Mary Mamour
Edward Massimino
Alam Mathiang Machot
Charles Odur
Margaret Odur
Ayul Towng

We would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to the development of this website:

Original concept
Shar Jones, Blacktown City Council Museum Advisor and Andrea Fernandes, NSW Migration Heritage Centre

Executive producer
John Petersen, NSW Migration Heritage Centre

Project administration & content coordination
Jenny Bisset and Monir Rowshan, Arts & Cultural Development Unit, Blacktown City Council

Web design & production

Annette Loudon, NSW Migration Heritage Centre inspired by print design by Gary Vicente and objects loaned by Yide Judith Nathan

Research
Shar Jones, Blacktown City Council Museum Advisor and Nicole Secomb, Historian & Heritage Consultant for Blacktown City Council with support from Andrea Fernandes, NSW Migration Heritage Centre

Oral history interviews
Shar Jones, Blacktown City Council Museum Advisor and Nadyat El Gawley with support from Susan Vogels and Bintu Kamara, SydWest Multicultural Services Inc. and Monir Rowshan, Arts & Cultural Development Unit, Blacktown City Council

Text
Shar Jones, Blacktown City Council Museum Advisor; Nicole Secomb, Historian & Heritage Consultant for Blacktown City Council and Andrea Fernandes, NSW Migration Heritage Centre

Editing
Andrea Fernandes, NSW Migration Heritage Centre

Photographer
Marian Abboud

Supplementary photography by
Shar Jones, Blacktown City Council Museum Advisor; Nicole Secomb, Historian & Heritage Consultant for Blacktown City Council and Monir Rowshan, Arts & Cultural Development Unit, Blacktown City Council

Sudanese Stories project information »

Sudanese Stories is a project partnership between Blacktown’s Sudanese community, Blacktown City Council, SydWest Multicultural Services Inc. and the NSW Migration Heritage Centre with support from Museums & Galleries NSW, Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW and Blacktown City Libraries.


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The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a New South Wales Government initiative supported by the Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural New South Wales.
www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au

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