The location of Tuti Island is distinctive.
It is the meeting point of the two Niles.
The meeting point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
The start of Tuti Island is the beginning of the Nile River which is flows northwards to Egypt
It’s not possible, there is no taste to it.
The most beautiful thing that distinguishes us from the rest of the world is the Nile.
There is no other river like it. It’s a great river-heavenly- and the life around it is unique.
People in Egypt and Sudan benefit so much from the Nile, look at the green strip of land, our produce is all from this land.
All the vegetables and rearing the animals, our fruit, and of course this river is a great blessing for all of us
To be honest, I probably don’t have anything directly to do with the land which I am on,
But I take the vegetables from here at night, the workers prepare it, In the market they
then distribute the product to the rest of the capital city, but of course it does not
come from one place only, the vegetables come from several places around the Nile, from
Tuti, Shakbat, AlSababi, Halfaya, Souka, Betry, and also from the west of Um Durman,
that’s where the vegetables come from
Because he has to be educated if he was to be a farmer he would have to be an educated farmer for example a graduate in agriculture.
And of course, the land is small for an ambitious individual, because land here is
distributed and made up of small parts, I am not an owner.
I am different of course, I want my son to be educated, to become a doctor, an engineer,
I don’t want him to be a farmer of course not”, even I am not a farmer, maybe I am partly
a farmer but not entirely, however, I help farmers in their work because I take the
vegetables from here and transport them to the market.
The vegetables generally, molokhiya (green leaf vegetable) black aubergines they take it
from here and to the market and it is sold in the central market.
From the central market it is distributed to the rest of the tribal Capital.
Of course we take a large amount, I don’t take it on my own, lots of people transport it
over there and they take it down to the market and after that it is distributed bit by
bit, depending on the people’s demand.
No there’s nothing like that, no one can stop the Nile, not Ethiopia and not anyone
else, not even the whole of America, it’s just like that, it’s a gift from God Almighty.
No matter how strong a human being is he cannot overcome or stop a force like the force of this river.
The Nile is aggressive, you have not yet seen any floods, when the floods come they are
really overwhelming, they will not be able to stop the water, never.
That is up to them (South) to vote, I was not granted the right, I am in the North, they
gave it to those in the South.
Basically, I can’t voice my opinion, you see they have not given me the right, the state
has not given us the right, we are in the north, they gave it to those in the south only.
My kids are getting an education, I want a good education for my children, one that can
benefit them, the children are at good schools and are graduating from University, that’s
all, that’s all I aspire to achieve not more than that.
It is simple and hopefully God will grant me this.
A big difference, there’s a big difference, they feel it, we who have lived it feel it.
Anyone that comes here and sees the Nile and sees the magnificence of the Nile will feel
the greatness of it.
Once a Saudi man who came to visit a Sudanese journalist wrote about it, The Saudi man
asked the Sudanese is all of this water pure?
He said yes it’s all pure water, the rest I can’t say on camera.
Here?!
At any time, if you plant anything it will grow, even the plants that are not found in
the White Mediterranean sea if you bring them here they will still grow, but if you
remove a plant from here, for example the mango fruit, it cannot be good in Saudi Arabia
it will not grow, it cannot be planted there, there is no way, there’s a big difference
of course between Sudan and Saudi Arabia.
Of course the people that live around the Nile have a stronger attachment to this land
than others, for example he who lives on the Nile cannot move away from it, even if it’s
within Sudan itself, if he leaves this place he feels as though something is missing.
This is the feeling of all those who live around the Nile, but take for example someone
who is not living near the Nile, he can leave, he can live in any country, but he who has
been here it no longer becomes an easy thing to pick up and go, you will rarely find 60 00:05:10,000 --> 00:00:00,000 anyone who has done so.