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Book SynopsisLetters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation – North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) – makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process – by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on the Text Historical Nomenclature List of Figures Introduction 1951 – Native Quarter 1952 – Crossing the Bar 1953 – Serpent’s Tooth 1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party 1955 – Mutiny 1956 – Crisis 1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake 1958 – An End to Democracy 1959 – Bogged on the Runway 1960 – The Year of Africa 1961 – Cold War 1962 – Backwater Paradise 1963 – The Widening Gyre 1964 – Revolution 1965 – Leaving Afterword A Who’s Who of Ewen’s Sudan Works Cited Index
