Sudan: History of a Broken Land From the author: It was the
giant of Africa: a nation which once represented the greatest
hope for peaceful coexistence between Arab and African, Muslim
and Christian. That hope is all but gone. The promise of Sudan
was just an illusion. It is already a fractured country and, in
the longer term, this is unlikely to be an isolated matter of
north and south breaking apart following the referendum on
southern secession. Separatist movements in regions such as
Darfur and the Nuba Mountains are watching with more than
curiosity. And it is not just Sudan: in other African and Arab
countries independence factions are eying developments with a
view to making their move either through the ballot box or the
gun. In the run-up to the referendum, I traveled to Sudan to
make the film. I have been fortunate enough in my life to have
visited most of the world’s countries and yet, this would be the
first time I had set foot in Africa’s largest. To say that the
northern Sudanese people are enor