Summary
During the day, Gadoora checks his patients at a clinic near Khartoum, but at night he locks himself in his room rapping songs that echo the sentiments of Sudan's "revolution".
A surge of freedom has taken over Sudan's underground music scene since the army ousted longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April after months of nationwide protests against his rule.
From rap to Afrobeat, musicians living in Sudan and overseas have composed tunes punctuated by some of the protest movement's most popular slogans. During Bashir's ironfisted rule of three decades, Sudanese rappers had been unable to express themselves openly.
Gadoora is particularly influenced by the June 3 crackdown on a protest camp outside Khartoum's army headquarters that left dozens dead and hundreds wounded.
"Music and revolution are just one thing," Hikmat said, dressed in a traditional Sudanese robe and cap.
Sudanese musicians began to produce revolutionary songs around six months ago, he said, after the start of anti-Bashir protests in December.
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