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“I shall lie like water on the Nile’s body,” writes Sudanese-Libyan poet Mohammed el-Fayturi in his beguiling poem Dig No Grave for Me. “Like the sun over my homeland’s fields.” Nurtured by the sun and water, el-Fayturi envisions Sudan as a living being nourished by nature’s grace; a homeland that breathes through its rivers and fields. He places himself, and those who resist oppression and colonialism, in the position of nature itself: to serve, to protect, to give life,…
