Nancy Ajaj

Posted on April 19, 2008
Filed Under Female Species, Sudanese, Music |

Nancy Ajaj is a Sudanese singer who has become very famous in recent years. Her voice can be seriously annoying sometimes when she maintains the same high pitch without enough variation but overall, I think she’s adorable and love what she has to offer.

Sudanese conservatives loathe her of course. Let them enjoy doing so as much as they want, just as long as they don’t try to harass her and shut her up.

Enjoy the first two minutes of this clip.

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15 Responses to “Nancy Ajaj”

  1. lirun on April 19th, 2008 11:04 am

    very sweet - too sweet for a whole musical meal but very sweet..

    looks indian..

  2. Drima on April 19th, 2008 11:49 am

    She *is* sweet. :)

  3. asma ana on April 19th, 2008 5:43 pm

    She’s hot…so the head-dress is no longer “cool” and a must in Sudan nowadays? Oh, how things have changed!

  4. Juba on April 20th, 2008 1:25 pm

    Give me Hamza el Din of Nubia to listen to and the rest is arabic style rubbish music.
    Long live Nubia and down with the Arab masters.

  5. Halalhippie on April 20th, 2008 8:12 pm

    Lovely girl, sweet voice, boring song (sorry)…
    Why do conservatives loathe her ? Does she sing “adult lyrics” or something ?

  6. Drima on April 21st, 2008 12:39 am

    Juba, you’ve got serious issues. Down with idiots like you who are just as bad as supremacist Sudanese Arabs.

    Halalhippie, don’t worry my feelings are not hurt. :P

    She’s not the best Sudan has to offer in terms of music but I do like her overall. Conservatives don’t like her because they think she’s Westernized and secular.

  7. John on April 21st, 2008 7:47 pm

    “…Conservatives don’t like her because they think she’s Westernized and secular…”

    What’s new?

    Is there something else these conservative muslim do not like? Westernized and secular!!! Aren’t they the sides of the same coin? Is there really a difference in the eyes of radical conservative between the two?

    Maybe conservative do not like her because she is a woman and her name is Nancy. I am guessing that if her name happened to be Khadija instead, she might have pass the test of acceptance and recognition. Who knows?

  8. Juba on April 22nd, 2008 11:22 pm

    Me having serious issues? What issues are you talking about? I have none. I am proud of my Nubian heritage, and I grew out of this idea that I could be both black and muslim sudanese. You can keep holding on your old master’s religion if it can provide you with a sense of who you are.

    It is you that have serious problem calling visitors “idiots”. As long as you are slave of your masters religion of fear and mysogyny you cannot fool people. Why put this singer on your blog if you cannot handle the heat of one anti-arab comment. What were you expecting? some praise of this second grade singer. It goes to show that you entry are left to be desired when only few comments are posted.

    I am a son of a deceased cadre of the old country of Numeiri. My father migrated to Britain then Britain. I am a pround Afro-centric nubian. You can keep defending this theocratic country of yours that have been usurped by the muslims Arab mauroders. Wondering who have issues. I am out. Next time keep Bob Marley clips rolling and instead of this lady called Nancy. Maybe a clip showing the dancing and chanting of the beautiful Dinka people of Southern Soudan. These once thriving beautiful people have been decimated by your muslim arabo-centric masters.

  9. Té la mà Maria on April 24th, 2008 3:32 pm

    very good blog, congratulations
    regard from Catalonia Spain
    thank you

  10. asma ana on April 28th, 2008 12:12 am

    hey Juba,
    Please take a hike! We advocate tolerance on this site.

  11. John on April 29th, 2008 5:50 pm

    Asma ana,
    You have to be really careful, with the term Tolerance. It may mean tolerating the sharia laws and Sudan’s genocidal policies and I may even add their “intolerance”.

  12. Drima on April 30th, 2008 5:24 pm

    Juba, allow me to elaborate.

    What I find troubling with your stance is that you’re basically projecting what Arabs have done in the past onto Nancy Ajaj simply because she’s an Arab. That’s kinda like me calling Frank Sinatra or Elvis rubbish white music just because of what the White man has done in the past.

    Read this, your words, not mine:

    “Give me Hamza el Din of Nubia to listen to and the rest is arabic style rubbish music.
    Long live Nubia and down with the Arab masters.”

    Yeah, white music is rubbish. Down with white master huh?

    Listen, I am of mixed blood. I’m an Afro-Arab and I condemn the crap supremacist Sudanese Arabs have done in Sudan. But guess what? I get annoyed by the racism of some Southern Sudanese who are hostile towards me simply because they see me as a Northern Sudanese Arab. That’s all they know about me, not my stances, opinions or what I think. It doesn’t matter to them. I’m just an Evil Arab.

    So yeah, tell me again why your attitude fine? It’s downright racist. You wanna have a grudge against what supremacist Arabs have done in Sudan and continue to do in places like Darfur, no problem. I am harshly critical of that crap and the forced Arabization policies applied in places like the South. What the NIF and regimes before it did to the South was a Nazi nightmare. Garang is a hero and a true visionary who heartily believed in the concept of New Sudan. Too bad he’s gone now.

    I’m open to criticisms and different ideas but I ain’t going to welcome racist overgeneralizing comments.

    Yeah, down with rubbish Arabic music and the Arab master.

    If I misunderstood you (which I don’t think I did), please re-explain. I’m all ears!

    John, you’re right about the word “tolerance” but Juba’s attitude is by no means “tolerable” and I don’t think it deserves any defense whatsoever.

  13. Ahmad al-Safawi on May 3rd, 2008 2:55 pm

    Well well well… What can i say.

    If someone is going crazy about that singer, they are shooting themselves in the foot. I would’nt even have noticed her at all… I mean, great guitar play, it reminds me of our lovely Upper Egypt, but the song sounds like something the local barber in Kom Ombo plays on his 60-year old radio, and dont even get me started on her voice. Not a singer that awakes any feelings inside me at all, except perhaps a twist of annoyment due to her voice.

    But how can you guys tell that she is secular? Because she has no veil?

    All in all, i think this is a non-issue - as an arab conservative, i cannot see how this threatens any islamic values in Sudan. She’s in no way provocative - Nothing compared to our situation in Egypt :) Instead of fighting down there, chill, and be happy that the Nile flows northwards!

    halalhippie:
    The sound is called Ya Sadiqi = O My Friend.

  14. Ahmad al-Safawi on May 3rd, 2008 5:33 pm

    the song, i meant

  15. Nasser on May 5th, 2008 4:33 pm

    is Nancy (whoever she may be) having such an effect on us that she can be the cause of such heated discussion? wow !!! Sudans’ problems are all solved and we can push political and race problems onto an unknown singer !! Pls chill and stop breaking up the poor country .. Sudanese don’t need this junk just because you have internet access and the opportunity to anonymously voice some race issues you personally have. get a life somewhere!! Supremacist Arabs, Slave Blacks … what other catchphrases will you use next (even these are not new you know)?

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