They came to Cairo by camel with tea kettles and cook pots, saddles and bridles, goat skins and jerry cans, stuff bags and blankets, and returned to Kordofan carrying the same, by lorry and railroad and ferry boat, then by another train and another lorry, back to where they’d set out. I wonder what the train engineer and ferry captain asked them. Where are you going? From where are you coming? They answered…to Dar al-Kababish [Home of the Sheep Keepers]…from Umm al-Dunya [Mother of the World].
Before, in Kordofan ©David Melody
After, in Cairo ©David Melody