One of the largest countries of Africa,Sudan has a area of 1.886.068 km2 and a population of 34 milions of inhabitants.

The primary language is Arabic. A tradition is a belief wich passed down within society in the past,and still maintained in the present.Common examples include holidays ,clothes,food,happy and sad occasions and also occasions wich related to religion. Sudanese hospitality The Sudanese people are very generous and hospitable.They welcome guests in a friendly and generous manner,they also make it their duty to entertain their guests.The custom of greeting upon two men meeting each other is to shake hands and tap each others shoulder at the same time.A hug and rubiing of cheeks may be exchanged between Sudanese ladies and their friends. Food in Daily Life The day usually begins with a cup of tea.Breakfast is eaten in the mid to late morning,generally consisting of beans,salad,and bread.Nomads in the north rely on dairy products and meat from camels.In general,meat is expensive and not often consumed.Sheep are killed for feasts or to honour a special guest.The intestines,lungs,and liver of the animal are prepared with chilli pepper special dish called marara.Sometimes cooking is done in the courtyards outside the house on a tiny grill called a kanoon wich uses charcoal as fuel.Tea and coffee are both very popular drinks. Superstitions Sudan is considered as a very superstitious society thus a countless number of beliefs were generated throught the years ,some related to animals ,food,marriage and other social statuses,others related to actual activities.One of the common beliefs is seeing a white dove or spilling milk means that whomever did it ,is to be expecting something good will happen.Also when the slippers are accidently one over each other ,then it means travelling somewhere soon,and when the slippers are turned upside down,this means fight or an argue between 2 persons.When too much ants and bugs are seen all over the house ,then its owner is going to move away soon.When two people say the same thing at the same moment,its believed that the first one who touches anything wooden,will get married first. Ramadan Is one of the religious customs in Sudan,it is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar,wich lasts 29 or 30 days.It is the Islamic month of fasting,in wich participating muslims refrain from eating ,drinking and smoking.Villagers who work in different Sudanese towns and abroad return to their villages ahead of Ramadan.Those include employees,workers and also students.The mosques are crowded with worshippers all the day.People have religious programs throughout the day including the Koran recitations between midday and afternoon prayers.Exhibitions of religious books are also displayed within the mosque courtyard.Men and women throng apart to perform the Taraweeh the nightly prayers,which are performed only during Ramadan.During the Taraweeh,one chapter of the 30 chapters is recited;winding up the whole holy book by the end of the Ramadan,and each Taraweeh is concluded with the invocations and poems on the Prophet Mohammad.Carpets and prayer rugs are stretched for people to have breakfast and perform prayers on after the meal.Usually,those carpets are kept in a certain house and are taken out only during Ramadan.Ramadan tray contains genuine Sudanese foods and drinks,particularly asida(porridge made from sorghum),hilu-mur(sweet-bitter,a drink made from sorghum and all kinds of spices) and kerkede drink,aradaib;talbalde,lemon and various kinds of

fruit and juices.After eating dates and driniking,all worshippers line up behind the imam to say sunset prayers and immediately after that they all assault the trays to squash thirst and defeat the hunger.