What does bilad es Sudan means

West AfricaA region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. In the 1950s and 1960s most of thecountries in this area achieved independence from colonial powers.

Various historical records attest to their presence at one time in the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires, then called the Bilad as - Sudan from the Arabic meaning Land of the Blacks. Jews from Spain, Portugal, and Morocco in later years also formed communities off the coast of Senegal and on the Islands of Cape Verde.