Dr.. Fadlallah Ahmed Abdullah and the nostalgia for the civilizational project to Arabize the African peoples, which is gone forever
I, like others, read in one of the social media groups (WhatsApp) a disgusting and extremely provocative article for the Masalit people (the great Negro African people) under the name of Dr. Fadlallah Ahmed Abdullah, entitled “The secularism of Abdulaziz Al-Hilu on the ash hills of Darmsalit”, and for the horror of what he uttered and the shock I did not believe him for a moment, and I went back and checked his personal Facebook page to confirm and found the same article published on his page on February 24, 2025.
I subconsciously read the article twice and wondered why someone could write such a thing against himself and his people, a person who is supposed to be knowledgeable and aware of the importance of culture and its connection to identity as one of its determinants as a university professor, dean of a college, theater critic, and a human being whose knowledge has reached the point where the letter “Dr.” is written in front of his name, but I soon regained my thinking and realized the truth of the ideas that Dr. Dr. has been carrying and preaching throughout his political history, which glorifies Arab culture and on the other hand falsifies and distorts it.But I soon recovered my thinking and realized the truth of the ideas that the doctor has been carrying and preaching throughout his political history, which glorifies Arab culture and in turn falsifies, distorts, and disrespects African cultural values.
Through our account of the article, we will quote some of what he said and deconstruct it to illuminate his dark thoughts and to make our people aware of the seriousness of what he said in order to block the realization of his goals of Cultural Dislocation and Cultural Genocide against the African Masalit people, to which Dr. Fadlallah belongs.
The doctor should know that we have no animosity or personal grudges against him, but we will challenge his outdated ideas and practices that have harmed our people and he should realize this and change his course.
Dr.. I know Dr. Fadlallah and respect him as a member of our people (Masalit) despite our principled disagreement with him about his ideas, which he has been promoting and working for (with all sincerity and sincerity as a committed member, disciple and brilliant leader of the Islamic Movement terrorist organization) Even if these ideas were at the expense of the security, safety and stability of his people in Darmsalit and other African peoples in Sudan.
I don’t think there is anyone familiar with the Sudanese political scene who doesn’t know Dr. Fadlallah Ahmed Abdullah. Fadlallah Ahmed Abdullah because he is the son of Darmsalit, Habila region, as a Jengesi and the former mayor of El Geneina locality (until 2009, representing the National Congress), a university professor and dean of the Faculty of Music and Drama at the Sudan University of Science and Technology and a loyal son of the Islamic Movement and the National Congress, which is primarily responsible (the Islamic Movement and the National Congress) since its usurpation of power on June 30, 1989. since its usurpation of power on June 30, 1989, from planning and implementing all crimes, violations, inhumane practices, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against human dignity such as rape, forced displacement, humiliation, deliberate impoverishment, and displacement of the Masalit people and indigenous African peoples. The Massalit people and other African Indigenous Peoples (African Indigenous Peoples) in Sudan by using the machine of the military institution (the army) at times, as happened in the Nuba Mountains region and the New Fung region (Blue Nile) and in our precious South Sudan until the South gained its independence in 2011, or by creating militias (Marahil, Popular Defense, Border Guards, and Janjaweed). Popular Defense, Border Guard, Janjaweed, and now Sudan Shield, Al-Baraa Brigades, and the current attempt to reproduce the Mahamid leader Musa Hilal again) and training, arming, supporting and supervising these militias to commit atrocities again, as happened in the Darfur region and other areas of Sudan, including Darmsalit.
As one of the mujahideen of the Islamic Movement, Dr. Fadlallah served during the period of the war on the peoples of South Sudan as a trumpet and media machine to justify the atrocities committed against his generous African people in the name of patriotism and jihad through his television program, “The Squares of Redemption,” to satisfy the historical privileges of the dark forces of the old Sudan and work as a moral guide during this program to raise the morale of the soldiers and mujahideen who were collapsing due to successive defeats by the rebels and free SPLM at that time.
As is the custom of the old Sudanese forces, their media machine and the compradors of the African peoples, Dr. Fadlallah made a (deliberate) mistake at the beginning of his article by attacking and targeting Abdelaziz Adam al-Hilu in his person as a strategy of political assassination that has been practiced by the enemies of real change, especially the Islamic Movement and the extremist Islamists. As a case of deliberate avoidance of confronting the SPLM-N, Dr. Fadlallah resorted to using the same media tools that he was trained and raised in the corridors of the Islamic Movement, which completely failed to confront the SPLM militarily, politically, and intellectually, and to confront it with argument, logic, and evidence. For example, when Dr. Fadlallah says, “One of Abdulaziz al-Hilu’s convictions, and the most consistent in his apparent speeches, …” He goes on to say, “He [meaning Abdulaziz] believes that the religion in whose name others were burned and tortured, …” Does Dr. Fadlallah really believe that Abdulaziz, as head of the SPLM, manages it alone and makes his own decisions? Or is he trying to compare the SPLM in his imagination to his Islamic organization that does not believe in democracy and the principle of collective management and tries to project this approach on the SPLM? Does Dr. Fadlallah think that the SPLM as a revolutionary organization (loose) to such a degree that its management is in the hands of one of its members, as is the case in old Sudanese organizations with a dictatorial and oligarchic structure that do not believe in the principle of peaceful transfer of power and one of which Dr. Fadlallah belongs to. Fadlallah?
He should know that the SPLM-N is a revolutionary, liberal and democratic organization that seeks to structurally dismantle these outdated ideas and rebuild the Sudanese state on new foundations that establish the principles of mutual respect and peaceful transfer of power through free and fair elections that are based mainly on the political and service program for the people (which leads to political stability) and not by drugging and deceiving people with ideological and religious speeches that do not achieve a decent life in the world. It should be known that the SPLM-N has institutions at different levels that are concerned with setting its policies and making its decisions in a democratic manner, especially fateful decisions such as establishing alliances such as what happened in Nairobi on February 22, 2025.
In a case indicative of the psychological collapse of the spread of awareness among our people, especially the youth, Dr. Fadlallah says, speaking about Commander Abdulaziz, and we quote, “With this vision, Abdulaziz al-Hilu continued to attract large numbers of West Darfur’s youth and Masalit in particular.” End quote. We tell Dr. Fadlallah that Abdulaziz does not work on the principle of polarization as is the case in the organization of the Islamic Movement to which you belong, but rather he is interested and contributes mainly in raising the awareness of our people to take them out of the darkness of Islamism and Arabism and adopt a culture that does not represent them and does not concern them in anything. The term “polarization” itself has connotations of “importation” and we do not use it in the SPLM literature, but we work to raise revolutionary awareness by informing the masses (educating them) about the nature of their issues and the need to adhere to their cultures through cultural relocation, after which individuals are free to decide to belong to the revolution and not necessarily to the SPLM-North.
In a clear provocation and mockery of the Masalit people, Dr. Fadlallah says in his article, and we quote, “He selected thousands of them and entered the” cave of blindness “and quarantined them in the” crackers “of the Nuba Mountains, mutilating their cultural personalities in the name of Africanism and return to the roots.” End of quote. It seems that Dr. Fadlallah is very dissatisfied with the Masalit people’s growing awareness of their African self and their beginning to take practical and real steps to return to their (African) cultural roots and adopt their culture in word and deed to remove the distortions that resulted from the Arabization policies adopted by Sudanese governments towards African Negroes since the exit of the colonial powers and the declaration of Sudan’s (incomplete) independence in January 1956, which is an advanced revolutionary step in the direction of localization. An advanced revolutionary step in the direction of cultural relocation and return to the roots by developing their language and writing and opening schools and institutes to teach the language to ensure the continued existence of the mother tongue and its inheritance to generations and to ensure that it does not become extinct in the future as a result of the ongoing Arabization policies of the Islamic-Arabic Center (the real enemy of all indigenous African peoples in Sudan) until now, which Dr. Fadl has been serving with all sincerity and honesty. Fadl has been serving it with all sincerity and honesty, even if it resulted in genocide and ethnic cleansing. His statement about the Return to Roots project and our people’s use of their cultural heritage as a “monstrosity” is an insult to himself first, the Masalit people second, and all indigenous African peoples third, and Dr. Fadl should apologize to our people and ask for forgiveness and pardon for what he has done.
What bothered and angered Dr. Fadlallah even more (to the point that he took the trouble to write an article and publish it) was the Masalit people’s beginning to abandon the (borrowed) Arabic names that do not express their self-expression as a Negro African people with their own culture and language. Dr. Fadlallah said, and we quote, “They called on their families [meaning the youth or comrades specifically] not to name their daughters Fatima and Aisha, nor their sons Mohammed, Ahmed, or Abu Bakr, because they carry the culture of the Arabs.” End quote. We wonder what cultural value or advantage these (Arabic) names have over African names (such as Baraka, Nella, Eiji, Dukroo, Tatuja, Majeka, Keok, Koko, Deng, and others) that Dr. Fadlallah is fighting against? Is naming Arabic names an obligation or duty for Muslims or a pillar of Islam or faith, and can Dr. Fadlallah prove it with conclusive evidence? Can Dr. Fadlallah prove with conclusive evidence from the Qur’an or the Sunnah (the sayings of the Prophet (peace be upon him)) that Arabic names are obligatory or obligatory for Muslims or that they are a pillar of Islam or faith? Does anyone who does not name his children Arabic names or who does not bear these names become outside Islam? The answer is no, and Dr. Fadlallah cannot answer any of our questions in the affirmative or prove their validity.
This kind of rhetoric shows that Dr. Fadlallah lives in a state of nostalgia and nostalgia for the dark past of their civilizational project, and his disgusting and provocative article about the Masalit people (the free African Negro) is a desperate attempt to fish in troubled waters, trying to take advantage of the exceptional circumstances that the Popular Movement is going through from the attack and distortion by the enemies of real change and their (free) media mechanisms from the marginalized people because Dr., his organization and the enemies of the movement cannot compete with the Popular Movement under normal circumstances.
We say to Dr. Fadlallah Ahmed Abdallah, that our people (Masalit) and all African peoples in Sudan have reached an advanced stage of awareness and pride in their African cultures, and your merchandise is old and outdated and will not fool the Masalit people and the rest of the authentic African peoples who yearn for freedom.
We emphasize that the project of returning to the roots and the processes of cultural localization will continue, and Dr. Fadlallah or anyone will not be able to do anything about it except to burn (renounce) themselves towards their people because the African peoples in Sudan today are at the top of their cultural awareness and are not the same as they were twenty years ago.
We send our thanks and gratitude to the director of the Droti Language Institute, Comrade Tûkûñi Kûyûkû Aaka Tommboocha Gide (Abu Bakr Ibrahim Ismail) and all the directors of the Masrawi language institutes and teachers in various places for their tremendous efforts in developing the Masrawi language (Mesrak) until it became read, written and taught in schools with an integrated curriculum, as well as greetings to students and all our people in refugee camps in different countries for their interest in learning and teaching their children their original language and culture.
Finally, we call on all indigenous African peoples in Sudan to pay attention and adhere to their cultures and work to develop their indigenous languages because the battle for victory over cultural displacement and cultural genocide is no less important than the armed struggle, but rather integrated with it. Therefore, it is necessary to be aware of the dimensions of the cultural-identity conflict in the Sudanese state crisis because it is one of the soft tools that Arab governments in Sudan have been using against African and necessarily marginalized peoples.
May the cultural revolution continue and victory is certain
and Ramadan is a blessing for all struggling peoples
Mujtaba Hammad Adam Maajika Ta Baba
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Ontario, Canada
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