The people of Darfur, the land of the Fur,
have shared various cultures for decades, making history in
the fertile land that extends to a 150,000-square-mile expanse
of desert and savannah....
Darfur is the most representative of all
Sudan’s 26 provinces for its ethnic variety, languages, and
internal problems, in addition to the influence exercised by
neighboring countries and international powers...
That was the song chanted by the Darfuri
girls who had been escorted by their mothers to attend the
graduation of a new class of Qur’an hafiz youth being held
in a football playground in Al-Fasher city, northern Darfur...