Examples of use of Hakama
1. The main obstacle to reforming the Hakama singers, Hamid said, is money.
2. It‘s an effort to reform the traditional Arab singers known as Hakama –– more colloquially, the Janjaweed women –– who are about as far from Bob Marley as it gets.
3. As the Hakama leader, Fatima Osman Ahmed, told him: "Many people can pay for war –– nobody pays for peace." "This is a problem," Hamid said.
4. "They have a big influence on the community and a very dangerous role in conflict." A bit propagandists, a bit hate radio, Hakama singers exist in just about every Arab town and village in Sudan.
5. According to an Amnesty International report, one lyric went like this: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land!" Hamid sat in the hot shade of a tree with a dozen or so Hakama singers, trying to convince them of the less financially rewarding, and perhaps less exciting, merits of singing about peace.