“When God created Sudan, it was eating.” At the dawn of the 19th century, Sudan will gradually emerge in its current configuration, starting with the conquest launched by the Egyptian Vice King, Méhéma Ali, and continued by its descendants. The vast area of territory that will form the contemporary Sudan (2 505 810 km² before the partition of South Sudan on 9 July 2011) consists, at that time, of several royaumes occupying a space delimited by the Egyptian Nubie...