What if government brings up the African face of Sudan?
By Mahgoub El-Tigani Dec 11, 2004 — The Khartoum administration is working hard these days to prepare the national capital to a grand cultural occasion under the exciting logo “Khartoum, the Capital of the Arabic Culture.” Wasting no time, the ruling NIF’s Presumptuous Arab Mentality (PAM) decided to inundate the Sudan T.V., the Omdurman national radio service, and all government supported media with a specific message: “Sudan is an Arab society with an Arab government, an Arab culture, and an Arab capital.” Towards this end, the government invoked legal revisions as well as security measures in advance to ensure the most stringent degree of cultural monopoly in the upcoming discourse of the cultural festival. The Registrar-General of the Cultural Association, Ms. Maria Sa’eed, repeatedly announced in the T.V. that all associations thus far registered under the prevailing law are “hereby invalidated unless they apply for re-registration, hold general assemblies by permission, and elect
