Sudan on the March

Fighting for religion and nationalism are common themes for wars for centuries and the Sudan is no exception. 

In the last decades of the 19th century was wracked by war, with these Sudanese fighting against the forces of Egypt and Imperial Britian.

Some were armed simple muskets but most carried swords, spears and animal hide shields.

  Their military power was eventual crushed by the modern arms of the British at the battle of Omduman in 1898.

I painted these plastic pieces in 2017.