News at Eleven: "In order to disrupt this conformity

of Arabic and Islamic identity which is being forced onto them, they are turning to their own heritage and asserting that," she [Sarah Maguire] says. [Al-Saddiq] Al-Raddi's work "as a poet is part of that assertion of his African identity, through trying to make connections, particularly with people in the south who come from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds."

from The Guardian: 'There is a Sudanese culture'

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