Sudan Events: Magda Hassan
Female Creators of the Union of Musical Professions in Kassala State celebrated yesterday afternoon a Sudanese ritual that the people of the East love (a Coffee session) attended by a group of music and drama professionals at the House of the Union of Musical Professions.
Heritage
The session was in the context of reviving the heritage of coffee , according to the modern developments that exist to it or accompanied its introduction, such as juices, Sudanese nuts, and sweets , and popcorn and others.
The event set by the creators of musical professions to celebrate this custom has taken on a family type .
Cohesion:
Coffee , as we call it, refers to the content of the drink, or it is the vessel in which coffee is poured and served to people.
It is made of pottery and is black or light brown in color. There is another type made of tin [iron or aluminium], but metaphorically it means coffee. The session included talk about coffee and its importance to the people of eastern Sudan in particular, as a form of quality and mood.
The role of these sessions is to increase social cohesion, as social stories and anecdotes are shared and some of their concerns are discussed by people of mood and condition.
Mood
Coffee drinking sessions are among the sessions that take place in neighborhoods between neighbors.
Even children from seven to ten years old in Beja House(Diyar El Beja ) have their own coffee sessions under the shade of neem trees.
Dr. Mohamed Adam Suleiman, a musician interested in Sudanese heritage, said in an exclusive interview to Sudan Events: coffee and its drinking in one group represent a form of living heritage in eastern Sudan with its literature and arts.
The cafés and social and cultural clubs represent the Beja and its residents.
He pointed out that it is one of the drinks that is widely spread in the world, but in Sudan and its east specifically, people are associated with it in the form of preparation and consumption. The form of dealing with it differs as a mood in the city and the desert.
In the city, it is served to the guest, but in the desert, coffee tools are presented to the guest so that he can prepare it according to his mood.
Singing
Coffee, entered the Sudanese song and was documented by poet-singers.
The truth is that the Sudanese song documented two types of coffee, (Sudanese coffee and Abyssinian coffee).
Perhaps the most famous clips of the songs are: “A cup of coffee in my left hand the world will be settled with me alone”)… by the famous Bejawi singer Adam Shash, which she sang.
Aqd Al-Jallad Artistic Band, which is still sung by all the people of Sudan.
In the next episode, coffee of all kinds in the Sudanese song.
