It was always about Arab racism Arabization supremacy .
The same what eliminated many minorities in the M.E. too.
The Arabs in Sudan are what we would call black, the non-Arabs there are almost blue-black.
I wish the Christians and animists in Sudan and Nigeria and so forth were as well-armed as the Muslim raiders.
Of course, there’s Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, calling itself Christian, and making as much hell on earth as any band of terrorists in the region.
Wll that got turned around on them hard in Zanzibar in the 60’s. The Arabs were hunted and slaughtered.