What does it mean to lean into your culture while living in a place that flattens it? In this richly textured episode, Saadia Khan sits down with Sudanese-American journalist and host of The Stoop, Hana Baba, for a wide-ranging conversation on identity, diaspora, and the soundscapes of belonging. From the cacophony of Sudanese weddings to the quiet codes of immigrant survival in the U.S., Hana explores the power of folk tales, scent, and sound as tools of cultural preservation and personal healing. The conversation unpacks the dangers of single narratives, the burden of "positive" stereotypes, and why leaning into your roots, even privately, is an act of resistance.

Whether you're a second-generation parent navigating inherited memory or a first-generation parent trying to keep your kids connected to something more profound, this episode offers a poignant, funny, and fiercely honest meditation on who gets to tell the story and how.

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Host & Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu

I Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon

Hutchinson | Other Music: Epidemic Sound

Special Shoutout to Hana Baba for sharing the original Sudanese tracks created by the following artists:

1. Jamal Intro Music Full - credit Mohamed Jamal

2. Ramy Intro Theme - credit Ramy Elbaghir

3. Sudan Oud - credit Khalid Elmahi

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