Omer Nazar Abusineina Mustafa, was born in Sudan, raised in London with his family currently residing in Saudi. Experiences in various Arab and English speaking communities has aided him in attaining fluency at both. He’s currently a business student at Bayes Business School where he hopes to take the knowledge learnt and apply it to his home country of the Sudan with a dream job of owning a sustainable farm in Sudan. With his country having enough agricultural land to feed all of Africa and the Middle East but a fundamental lack of knowledge regarding factors, such as supply chain management mean that output is so low that we currently struggle to feed ourselves.

Which music star, past or present, would you like to be stuck in a lift with and why?

I definitely think it would be Lupe Fiasco. His contribution  to hip hop and the African American community in general is immense. He has a strong understanding of the black experience in the West and more importantly how to uplift this experience. There is a small level of bias to my answer as I have had conversation with Lupe Fiasco about corona virus in sudan on Instagram during lockdown. its available online. It remains a highlight of the past year,  I was very impressed by how he just listened, and seemed very interested to learn about a topic he doesn’t know about, and it gave me chance to speak about my country, which I think can be seen I am very proud of and hold a lot of love for, in front of more than a thousand viewers live.

What one song could you listen to on repeat for the next year, why?
All the Kings men* by Ransom and mickey facts. I’m an avid hip hop listener. I dont like the claim ‘I listen to real hip hop’ as I feel we are in the golden age of the genre, where there is such a large variety, with popular trap rap and drill in the UK, but a rise in avant garde hip hop and larger access to underground artists has revolutionised the genre. The aforementioned song consistently blows my mind in terms of rhyme schemes. Really showed me that there is a science to this, and showed the value of putting in the 10,000 hours for mastering a craft, with one verse having 86 percent unique words. It is incredible.