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The City of Wadi Halfa drowned under the waters of Lake Nubia 62 years ago. What followed was not foretold for Nubian people, culture and language. Exodus both physically and linguistically dominated the narrative.
It will always break my heart that ancient Nubian towns in Sudan were drowned on purpose. They flooded 170km of land in the Nile Valley, the heartland where the Kingdom of Kush flourished for thousands of years.
The flooding forced over 70k people from their ancestral lands. On
