Osman Digna: Sudan's Bearded Warrior

# TikTok Script: Osman Digna – The Bearded Warrior Who Defied Empires Osman Digna earned

his name from his legendary beard and became one of Sudan's fiercest resistance leaders.

Born in Suakin in 1840, he was a successful merchant before joining Al Mahdi's

revolutionary movement against Egyptian rule. In 1883, he shocked the world

by defeating Egyptian forces near Tokar, capturing the city months later. For sixteen years,

his army battled colonial powers with mixed success. When British and Egyptian forces

retook Tokar in 1891, he fled to the mountains. Attempting to reach safety in Hejaz

in 1899, he was captured in January 1900 and imprisoned. The British freed