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and conditions for appointing teachers and training students severely suffered during this period, with standards of teachers' qualification and for admission of new students falling. Even though the college continued to exist, many young
Sudanese artists had to develop their art in a socially restricted environment and were practically cut off from artistic innovation in the rest of the world.
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orientation, artists and artistic scenes suffered from a 30-year long period of very difficult political and economic constraints. Among other factors, this was marked by many artists leaving the country, US-imposed sanctions, and the closing of many western embassies in the 1990s. The college budget
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In 1978, a modern complex for the college was designed by
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of 2018/19, however, the role of artists has been reported more often in international media. Before, during and after the revolution, artists have creatively expressed their views on society and politics, while this expression had been severely limited by the former government of Omar al Bashir.
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