Talk:Sudanese literature/Archive 1

Confusion of Name
The name Sudan comes from the Arabic word for black and was used in the sense of Black Africa. This is why Leo Africanus talks about Timbuctoo. There already is a wikipedia article on African literature. Most English readers will expect this one to be about literature in the Sudan, the country they can see represented on a map, some distance from Timbuctoo.Gallador 02:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, and French colonial administration used "Soudan (français)" for the modern state of Mali up to independence, and this sometimes creates confusion with the modern state of Sudan. See French Sudan for more. Munfarid1 (talk) 10:20, 9 December 2020 (UTC)