In Hussein Khojali's warehouses are 50,000 stories, images and memories – these are my visions – ✍️ Abdul Aziz Abdul Wahab
For two clear hours, we were welcomed by the eloquent representative, Mr. Hussein Khojali, in his elegant and refined council. Two hours filled with kindness, gentleness and comforting tales.
The meeting with Hussein, attended by my wife, Ishraqa al-Fatih, and our honorable Joy, and sitting with him is unlike any other session or meeting with Hussein, without temptation or flattery, is a Sudanese case of a extreme genius and extreme brilliance. elegance, full of competence and efficiency.
It's men within a man, journalists within a journalist, poets within a poet, intellectuals within an intellectual, and if you want, call it what you want and from whatever angle you see it, as long as it The arc is still open.
Hussein, the astute writer and communicator, is considered the owner of the greatest private treasure trove of knowledge, containing precious treasure troves of rare Sudanese images, memories and stories. He estimated that there were about 50,000 images and stories just a century old.
They were stolen and destroyed by force, just as the Qazzaz kebabs in the houses of the remains and cobs were destroyed by the century Tatars who went to his personal library and the Omdurman Canal Library and are fell upon them without conscience or their insight to inform them that what they were destroying might be the best provision to help them establish the kingdom they desired.
To some extent and with some wisdom, the man said that someone before the war offered him $12 million to buy the entire channel and continue presenting his weekly program for the benefit of the new owner.
The deal was not made because Hussein refused to give up his huge archives and told his negotiators: If you put the amount in my right hand and double it in my left, I would not sell you the stories and the astonishing novels of scholars and scholars. the history of the countries that adopted them, manufactured them and presented them to the world.
In my archives there is a conversation of Hussein who held back his tears, a rare recording by the artist Al-Kabli made in the fifties, and dialogues with Salah Al-Shaer, Bazraa, Hashim Siddiq and Hamad Wardi, who said that he was passionate about some of his works, including Al-Marsal, and I surpassed myself by your love and your wish, and oh people, I give you your revolution, which he said he sang during the festivals of marriage, he did not pay due attention to certain songs, like “Ya”. Nesma Mubarak Bashir.
And a sumptuous dialogue with Abu Amna Hamed, Al-Karib's press secretary, the decisive police officer and poet who dreams of a government that would abolish the post of Minister of the Interior and appoint a Minister of the Interior in his place. 'Love, Poetry and Humanity.
The man told us; Who maintains good friendships with figures across the intellectual and political spectrum from one end to the other, which justifies it and on which even his most bitter opponents agree; Regarding the stages of his education, he said that he was elected president of the high school union, but was expelled when he reached the second year of secondary school and was prevented from continuing his studies in all schools.
He left school to go to the market as a cloth merchant with his father, and there he began to educate himself and accumulate his wealth as he owned a car for the first time, but a friend of his only tempted him to return to school twice. a few months before the Sudanese certificate exam, which he passed and accepted at the Faculty of Law of the University of Khartoum.
But due to his commercial work, he transferred to the philosophy department of Cairo University, with the advice and temptation of his friend, the poet Tijani Saeed.
The man did not forget the moment he felt desolate when he saw Dr. Abdullah Hamdok; Mandated to save Sudan's collapsed economy; He leaves his seat in favor of Hemedti, who has no education, to take the head of the economic commission.
Then he told us about his exciting experiences in Alwan, with its fluctuations and fierce wars against governments, where he was confiscated and arrested more than once, and how journalist Ishraqa Al-Nour drove him several times in court because of its harshness. pleas against some ministers, and he said that (Dalal's pens), which Ishraqa Al-Fateh used to write, were among the most beautiful and intelligent names in the press corners.
We bade farewell to the man with the same beauty and fluidity, and he promised the readers of (These Are My Visions) a frank dialogue, in which he said he would respond to whatever came before him , in which he would answer questions that we will never ask anyone after him, such as the difference between the war of doctors John, Lam and Riek and the war led by Jalha, Balha and (Shalha). And about the “good deeds” that may be hidden in the chest of Hamdok, for which we could not be patient. And his message to the Arabs in their unity and to the Africans in their union?
So stay tuned…
May you live long
