Food culture on the ground … Sudan’s political story is heavily linked to its gastronomy. The packages of treats his mother prepared never lasted long enough; he grew sick of student food and began looking for recipes, but there were few resources. Over 15 years, his passion for tracing and documenting Sudanese recipes took him all over Sudan, and his work became, as he told me, “bound” in Sudan’s political story. He gathered recipes and food culture on the ground during the revolution that overthrew president Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s dictator of 30 years. “As I embarked on the project,” Al Tijani told me, we were “embroiled in the revolution, we drove all over Sudan during fuel cuts, protests, sit-ins.

Source: The Guardian February 20, 2026 21:52 UTC