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Banned and restricted books in Sudan
10 titles have been banned or restricted in Sudan, recorded across 10 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
10
Ban events
10
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
2
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season of Migration to the North | Tayeb Salih | 1966 | 1 |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | 1 |
| The Messiah of Darfur | Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin | 2012 | 1 |
| Holy Chains | Abdallah El Assad | — | 1 |
| Christ Re-crucified | Nikos Kazantzakis | 1948 | 1 |
| Bird of Doom | Francis Mading Deng | — | 1 |
| Their Story is My Story | Nahid Mohamed El Hasan | — | 1 |
| The Bar: The Story of Cracks and Slaves | Salah El Bashir | — | 1 |
| Two Skulls for the Sun | Mujahid Bakhous | — | 1 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 3
- Religious / blasphemy
- 3
- Immorality
- 2
- Sexual content
- 1
- Race / colonialism
- 1
- Other
- 1
By decade
1980s2
2010s8
Documented bans
All 10 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Messiah of Darfur2017
Christ Re-crucified2017
Bird of Doom2017
The Bar: The Story of Cracks and Slaves2017
Two Skulls for the Sun2017
Holy Chains2016
Love in the Time of Cholera2016
Season of Migration to the North1989
The Satanic Verses1988
Their Story is My Story2017
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.