Sudan Days
Sudan Days gives a grass roots picture of British colonial rule in Africa in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In 1926, at the age of twenty-three, the author was posted to the Sudan, which was then an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, administered jointly by Britain and Egypt. Over the next 25 years, he rose through the ranks to become Governor of Bahr al-Ghazal, the province in the far south-west, and he grew to love the local tribes, who went about (as he put it) 'starko' and fought each other with spears and sticks. He himself moved freely among them, trekking on his camel, George, as he visited Government outposts, police stations a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78589-567-8
- EAN: 9781785895678
- Produktnummer: 35594445
- Verlag: Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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