Their faces lit up with hope, pride and happiness. In wild jubilation they marches across the major streets of Khartoum, Omdurman, and Nyala cities. In Sudan, these were the faces of Sudan’s center or leftists— or liberals in general.
The conservatives all over Africa are dismayed due to the actions taken by ‘ordinary’ Sudanese citizens, who, over the past three years had experienced the worse living condition ever recorded in their country’s political history.
There are many analyses circulating all over the media predicting that a replica of what transpired in Libya will likely repeat itself in Sudan. Ordinary Sudanese would argue what’s worse than woking up each day to a rising cost of living, in almost every single aspect that affects their lives. From foodstuffs, to transportation, to almost every single basic social amenities they’ve been enjoying in the past
It’s understandable to note that Africans— most specifically the suppressed black Africans— who are so used to inequality and marginalization of all forms, will hardly understand the nature of the revolution engulfing some ‘working’ African countries. This hungry for change youths are so eager for social and political reforms to compete with the developed countries thus sacrificing at the altar what has been so expensive to most Africans; basic amenities. Oftentimes, it’s done in vain. But history has taught us this is how several countries liberated themselves and got it right.
Sudan is not a rich country. It’s one of the poorest nations in the world, but somehow magically, they gets things work more than most of the developing countries. From education, energy, clean water and others, Sudan under Albashir has provided what many rich African nations failed to achieve.
At the moment, it’s understandable to feel worried for Sudan, but it doesn’t make sense to feel sorry in advance for a country that built itself from the ground upward with little or inadequate resources to surpass ‘your’ rich African country in meeting the needs of the rural communities.
Omar Albashir’s shock exit is a step further for a country struggling to make an impressive outlook before the international community in order to be properly vaccinated from economic sanctions and bring some social reforms to transform the lives of their ambitious citizens. His exit is ‘good riddance’ for the millions of Sudanese who’re facing severe hardships abroad courtesy of his political actions and inactions. And this exit may surely attract the world to the born again country if they manage to get it right like their neighbor Ethiopia.
Malam Abuy Abba Akhuwa, wrote this piece from Kano, Nigeria.
