As additional visual documents, the book contains images by Sudanese documentary photographers, illustrating different stages and social backgrounds of the revolution up to the destruction of the sit-in by security forces on 3 June 2019.

In addition, the book's front and back cover show geographical maps of the protest sites in Khartoum with descriptions of the various places of action and artistic creation.

[7][8] Pictures of murals and graffiti, documentary videos and an interactive map of the sites have also been published online at sudanrevolutionart.org[9] On April 11, 2019, the dictatorial and Islamist government of Omar al-Bashir, which had ruled over the Sudan for thirty years, was overthrown by popular protests.

During the previous four months, an improvised camp, referred to in English as "the sit-in", had been the centre of the protests in front of the Ministry of Defence in central Khartoum, called al-Qiyada.

[10] After the coup d'état by the Sudanese military, negotiations between the succeeding junta and the opposition came to a dead end, as the protestors were hostile to a military-led transition and reclaimed a civilian-led government.

[1]: 31–42  Various forms of artistic creation, such as written and oral poetry, paintings and graffiti as well as documentary photography that contributed to the spirit of the revolution are presented in the next chapters.

[18] On 9 July 2021, Le Monde wrote about the book: "We [...] discover the courage of a young population, in love with freedom, who braved the shootings and the torture to go and demonstrate.

The images point to the role of women in the revolution, the intensity and the danger of the demonstrations, but above all this sort of organized utopia constituted by the sit-in, with the endless discussions, the exchange of books, the inventiveness of slogans and songs.