On the betrayal of the 2019 revolution’s ideals felt by many Sudanese, she added: “I feel very angry.” “I’m very sad, not only for me but for all the people.” My life isn’t safe and my home is watched all the time by militiamen,” Salah told the Financial Times from her hideout in the Sudanese capital. Yet this week, as the transitional government was dissolved in a military coup, troops and protesters were back on the streets of Khartoum and the “woman in white” was forced into hiding. Her actions two years ago – and those of other women whose voices were suddenly thrust into Sudan’s political discourse – helped convince the country’s armed forces to end Bashir’s three-decade Islamist regime, ushering in a fragile democracy. She was dressed in a striking white toub robe and reciting a revolutionary poem, and some called her Kandaka, a reference to the ancient Nubian queens of what is now Sudan who would lead warriors into battle. Alaa Salah became a symbol of resistance in 2019, when the young Sudanese student climbed on to a car outside Khartoum’s military garrison to rally the crowd demanding the removal of dictator Omar al-Bashir.
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