https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65525006
A musical instrument can symbolise hope amid destruction: the idea that human creativity can rise above human cruelty.
"I picked it up because it was very close to me [when I was leaving], other things were far from me. I left the keyboard behind because it was very heavy," he says.
Surprisingly, Matiang, a singer, cannot play the guitar himself, but he bought it for 25,000 Sudanese pounds ($41; £33) as an investment for his band Kuenyipuoua, meaning "to think in your heart" in the Dinka language. It is a troupe of 37 singers, guitarists, keyboard players and drummers.
Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home.
A crowd quickly gathers as the slim, tall young man begins to strum.
After a long, lilting guitar intro, another band member starts singing.
But while the guns are firing it can be hard to hear the call of the guitar.
// 这大概是我关注苏丹局势最有力量的一篇报道了。
// 这里节选了报道中的片段。
// 同样是红色的吉他啊，命运确实如此不同。
A musical instrument can symbolise hope amid destruction: the idea that human creativity can rise above human cruelty.
"I picked it up because it was very close to me [when I was leaving], other things were far from me. I left the keyboard behind because it was very heavy," he says.
Surprisingly, Matiang, a singer, cannot play the guitar himself, but he bought it for 25,000 Sudanese pounds ($41; £33) as an investment for his band Kuenyipuoua, meaning "to think in your heart" in the Dinka language. It is a troupe of 37 singers, guitarists, keyboard players and drummers.
Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home.
A crowd quickly gathers as the slim, tall young man begins to strum.
After a long, lilting guitar intro, another band member starts singing.
But while the guns are firing it can be hard to hear the call of the guitar.
// 这大概是我关注苏丹局势最有力量的一篇报道了。
// 这里节选了报道中的片段。
// 同样是红色的吉他啊，命运确实如此不同。