Sudan: Kulayb's Barking Dog 


Do you really want to live in a nation that looks like this on any given day?

https://x.com/hashsudan/status/2121268579727290776

Or consider that perhaps the Sudan does not have any "good guys" - rather merely incremental degrees of the bad?

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2121227620855529623

The Sudan has not crossed my mind in a couple of months.  The amputation of a friendship due to a deep betrayal has left a unique scar on my soul.  

But yesterday, an image of Sudanese men moving gold up a steep slope from one of the mines touched my heart.  Poorly clad, the men formed a human ladder as they moved the gold up the hill in hand-to-hand manner.  How many hours a day do they work? How are they kept from revolting? Is Wagner still managing the logistics?  Are they beaten for good measure?  There will be no bon vivant moment in the lives of the men.  They will remain nameless; other than being designated as the wretched of the earth.

Sudan represents just one of the nations which I refer to as a volatile societal rim: a place where ample resources actually work to cannibalize the local population as they are sold to the highest bidder.

Sunni Islam addresses in codified manner, the issue of manifest goods and hidden goods with regard to the percentage of zakat which is required. It is fairly self-explanatory; and on a fun note, there is no zakat to be collected on donkeys as they are considered quite worthless beasts. wink

Sudan extracts  approximately 70-90 tons of "hidden resource" of gold per annum.  From this amount, 2.5 percent of the income is to be allocated for the multiple designations for usage - and distribution begins with the indigent poor.

Sudan and her resources do not belong to the Sudanese people.  They belong to Kulayb's barking dog. And the words of a man from Ghana, W. Africa ring true in my ears today: "Africans treat each other worse than we ever treated them during slavery."

This is a truth which finds expression across Africa.






 

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