Page numbers in bold refer to that person’s entry of “A Who’s Who in Ewen’s Sudan”
Abbas, Ali Abdalla 350 , 386
Abbas, Mekki 87 , 386
Abboud, General Ibrahim 269 , 278 , 281 , 288 , 315 , 330 , 356 , 357 , 358 , 386 –87
compromises University 357
cultivates non-alignment 313 , 322 , 331
encourages Islam 329
expels Christian missionaries 329 , 346
focused on Arabisation 282
meets Chou En-Lai 347
represses dissent 296 –97 , 307 , 318 , 319
sends forces to Kuwait 318
stages coup 264 –65
visits China 347
visits UK 349
visits US 313 –14
visits USSR 313 , 315
Abdulla, Abdel Rahman 186
Abdalla, I.H. 279
Abdalla, Tayeb 81 , 119 , 154 , 337 , 387
as teacher 133
Abdu (cook) 219 –20 , 387
Aberdeen University see University of Aberdeen
Abu Simbel 21 , 295
activism, student 24 , 45 –46
see also University College of Khartoum: student protest
Addis Ababa 360
Addison, Joseph 8 –9
Africa, in British press 79 , 364
African National Congress 281 , 319
Aginaski, Michael Lado (servant) 225 , 236 , 257 , 260 , 273 , 276 , 280 , 283 , 305 –6 , 310 , 351 , 387 –88
falls ill 341
joins trek to Meroë 335
manages household 323 , 326
marries 305
returns to the South 367 , 375
Ahmed, Hassan 291
Ahmed, Saad 143 , 388
Ahmed, Sayed Ibrahim 287 , 388
Ahmed, Soad Ibrahim 287 , 320 , 331 , 388 –89
entertains Agnes Ewen 288
al-Azhari, Ismail 30 , 136 , 201 , 217 , 227 , 247 , 390
detained by Abboud 307 , 318
elected Prime Minister 163
escapes assassination attempt 180
Ewen meets 176
protests Abboud’s rule 290
resigns over Kosti prison deaths 217 , 227
al-Bashir, Omar Hassan Ahmad 380 –85
al-Din Abdallah, Brigadier Muhay 269 , 270 –71
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya 381
Algeria 211 , 299 , 322 , 364
War of Independence 312 –13 , 319 , 331 , 363
al-Khalifa, Sirr al-Khatim 356 , 376
Ali, Muhammad 31 –32
Ali, Sayed Nasr El Hag 274 , 389
Allsop, Kenneth 78 –79
al-Mahdi, Sadiq 357 , 380 , 390
al-Mahdi, Sayed Abd al-Rahman 29 , 162 , 269 , 408
al Mahdi, Sayed Siddik 137 , 170 , 269 , 275 , 290 , 390
al-Mirghani, Sayed Ali 29 –30 , 162 , 409 –10
al-Qaeda 381
al-Qurashi, Ahmad 354 –55 , 357 , 416
al-Sa’id, Nuri 194 , 240
al-Turabi, Hassan 353 , 357 , 380 , 381 , 422
Alwyn, Kenneth 143
Amin, Idi 380
Anglo-Egyptian Agreement (1899) 33 , 56
Anglo-Egyptian Agreement (1936) 33 , 56
Anglo-Egyptian Agreement (1954) 183
Ansar order 29 , 155 –56 , 168 , 170 –71 , 265 , 269 , 290 , 309
Anya-Nya 318 , 329 , 380
Arab-Israeli War (1967) 331
Arab Federation 261
posts forces to Kuwait 318
Sudan joins 218 , 240
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 284
Arles 216
Armenian Genocide 226
Armour, Charles 21
Armstrong, Louis “Satchmo” 298 –99
Arnold, Matthew 45
Asad, Muhammad 325 , 390
Asad, Talal 325 –26 , 390
Ashby, Eric 176 , 344
Ashigga Party
history and supporters 29 , 59 –60
joins National Struggle Front 59
merged into National Unionist Party 154
see also National Unionist Party (NUP)
Aspey, John 87 , 141 , 390
Association of African Universities 340
Astill, James 381
Aswan High Dam 21 , 212 , 217 , 265 , 279 , 287 , 292 , 331 , 345
Atabani, Fareed Ahmed 187 , 390
Atiyah, Edward 122 –23
Attlee, Clement 55 , 124
Auden, John Bicknell and Sheila 198 , 391
Austen, Jane 141 , 195
Mansfield Park 79 –81
Badawi, Hassan 334 , 391
Badawi, Soad al-Fatih 142
Baghdad Pact 194 , 239 –40
Bagram (Feast of) 53
Baker, Sir Samuel 97
Bakht er Ruda Institute 66 , 68 –69 , 126 , 158 , 182 , 248
Bari (people) 104
Baring, Evelyn 32
Barrie, J.M. 18
BBC 21 , 55 , 91 , 134 , 169 , 251 , 308 , 360
Beja (people) 90 , 93
Bell, Sir Garwain 29
Ben-Gurion, David 233
Bennett, Arnold 158
Berlin, Isaiah 15
Berridge, W.J. 354
Beshir, Mahomed Omer 30
Beshir, Osman 36 , 126 ,142 , 391
bin Laden, Osama 381 , 422
Black Power 378
Black Vanguard (Edward Atiyah) 122 –23
Blakemore, Sidney 59 , 391
Blue Nile Cinema (Naafi) 36 , 43 , 57
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 223 –24
Bor 100 –1
massacre at 382
Boustead, Hugh 182
Brezhnev, Leonid 315-16
Bright, John and Polly 66 , 68 –69 , 94 , 126 , 158 , 391
Britain
influence in the Sudan region 121 , 156 , 194 , 202 , 232 –33 , 262
invades Egypt 32 , 228 , 230 , 232 , 237
policy in Egypt 31 –34
view of Africa 35
British Commonwealth 56 , 110 , 137 , 155 , 281
Brittain, Owen 10
Brontë, Charlotte 79 –80
Brook, Alan and Rosemarie 74 , 82 , 392
Brooke, Rupert 49
Buchan, John, The 39 Steps 158
Bulganin, Nikolay 233
Bulgaria 363
Bullough, Geoffrey 336 , 392
Burma 283
Burns, Robert 5 , 222 –23 , 296 , 304
Burton, Sir Richard 358
Burtzeff, Mr 228 , 235 , 393
Byron, Lord 129 –30 , 141 , 156
Cairo 78 , 117 , 294 , 352 , 356
assassination attempts in 33 , 180
Ewen visits 216
protests in 58 , 79 , 167 , 168
US embassy meddles in coup 116
Caledonian Society 8 , 64 , 127 –28
Canal Zone 183 , 217
Cambridge Overseas School Certificate 157 –58 , 304 , 305 , 336
Cameroons 211 , 236
Carlos the Jackal 381
Carlyle, Thomas 147
cars, as status symbol 46 , 62 , 158 , 263
Cary, Joyce 66 , 67
Cecil, Lord David 15
Chadwick, Michael John 311 , 317 , 393
Chapman, Abel 90
China 216 , 256 –57 , 299 , 346
Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai) 346 –47
Christ’s Hospital 115
Churchill, Sir Winston 33 –34 , 55
CIA 116 , 150 , 194 , 241 , 300
Bay of Pigs invasion 312 , 314
circumcision, female (FGM) 28
climate change 39
Cold War 85 , 239 –40 , 313
Cuban Missile Crisis 328
Cole, G.D.H 15
Collinson, Patrick 20 –21 , 31 , 299 , 393 –94
Colmer, John and Dorothy 192 , 200 , 272 , 379 , 394
Acting Head of Department 209
in amateur dramatics 280
depart for U of Birmingham 283
friendship with Ewen 54 , 149 , 209 , 270
Colmer, Rosemary 149n .11
Communism 21
Ewen on 47 , 125 , 239
as excuse for repression 211
seen as modernisation 47
in Sudan 47 , 54 , 61 , 124 , 366
Condominium (Anglo-Egyptian) 2 , 33
Conference of Independent African States 281 , 319 , 322n .9
Congo, Democratic Republic of 300 –1 , 305 , 366
rebel violence in 363
Congress for Cultural Freedom 296
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness 97
Cook, Jo 306 , 394
Copland, Murray 284 , 286 , 324 , 379 , 394 –95
coups d’état 264 , 266
Algeria 312
Congo 300
Egypt 116
Iran 150 , 194
Iraq 261
Sudan 264 –66 , 269 , 279 , 380
Yemen 331
Cowper, William 40
Cox, Sir Christopher 59 –60
Crawford, Robert 4
Crichton, William and Isobel 51 , 75 , 117 –18 , 171 , 395
cricket 76 , 142 , 145
Crowley, Aleister 76
Crowther, Beryl (“Bunty”) 302 , 395
Currie, James 23
Curzon, Lord 197
Dafaalla, El Nazeer 353 , 354 –55 , 376
dancing, Scottish 8 , 43 , 65 , 75 , 127 –28
Daniel, Norman 327
Darfur, 1 , 176 , 181 –83
Ewen visits 253 –55
school fundraising in 305
war in 255 , 382 –83 , 384
Dean, John 222 , 395 –96
Debussy, Claude 256 , 323
Decadent Poets
reject imperial responsibility 224
De Coverley, Sir Roger (literary character) 8 –10
de Gaulle, Charles 312
De La Warr Commission 25
De La Warr, 9th Earl 34 –35
Democratic Front (U of Khartoum) 183
Demoz, Abraham 360 , 396
Deng, Francis 93
Dickens, Charles, Bleak House 316
Digna, Osman 92
Dinka (people) 101 , 155
war against the Nuer 382 , 383
Diraige, Ahmed Ibrahim, 182 , 187 , 396 –97
Disraeili, Benjamin 77
Donaghy, James and Jean 39 , 62 , 397
Dongolawi (people) 131
Douglas-Home, Alec 341
Dowson, Ernest 224
drama productions in Khartoum
Blithe Spirit 341
A Cocktail Party 286
A Doll’s House 210 –11 , 325
Endgame 280
Dr Faustus 322 , 324 –25
The Heiress 280
The Importance of Being Earnest 257
Marching Song 267
She Stoops to Conquer 331
Saint Joan 334
Winnie the Pooh 364
Duke of Edinburgh 140 , 344 , 349 , 369 –75
Dunbar, James and Olive 338 , 397
Durrell, Lawrence 308
Ebola 106
Ed Dueim 65 , 67 , 68 , 70 , 158
Eden, Sir Anthony 124 , 217 –18 , 229 –31 , 234
education, colonial 9 , 23 –25 , 52 , 68 –69
and clan leadership 182 –83
as counter-racism strategy 93
degree-awarding localised 220 –21
to develop national consciousness 126 , 339 –40
English central to nation-forming 1 –2 , 5 , 11 , 25
in Ethiopia 360
less important than personal loyalty 116
Islamisation of 329
as personal growth 26 , 81
to provide elite Anglophile administrators 9 –10 , 23 –24 , 35 –36 , 45 –46 , 111 , 119 , 176
Scottish contribution to 3 –5
sex- 172n .7
in South Sudan 103 , 106 , 117 –18
subverted by Egyptian educators 24
Sudan government exerts control over 94 , 341 , 346
unofficial documentation of 8 –10
women’s 133 , 142
Effendi, Fuad 133 , 397
Egypt
courts Sudanese political parties 121
explores union with Syria 257 , 261
modern history to 1950 31 –34
pursues non-alignment in Cold War 212 , 239
resists Britain 34 , 55 –58 , 79 , 123 –24 , 135 –36 , 201 , 211 –12 , 217 –18
seeks leadership of the Arab world 194 , 208 , 239 –40 , 331
waning influence in Sudan 94 , 179 , 201 , 212 , 240 , 257 , 357
wants control of Sudan’s finance and defence 56
see also Aswan High Dam; Naguib, General Mahommed; Nasser, Gamal Abdel-
Egyptian Islamic Jihad 381
Eisenhower Doctrine 241 , 261
Eisenhower, Dwight 298 , 366
el-Ahmadi, Abdel Meguid Bashir 241 , 263 , 299 , 388
Eliot, T.S. 57 , 63 –64 , 90 , 156 , 195 , 252 , 255
translated into Arabic 48
Ellis-Fermor, Una 61
El-Mahi, Dr Tigani 370
el Mirghani Pasha, Sir el Sayed 88 , 409
El Mirghaniya, Alsharifa Maryam 87 –88
El Obeid Massacre 155
El Serrag, Tahir 143 –44 , 149 , 171 , 197 –98 , 398
death in Zande Mutiny 203
El Shoush, Mohamed Ibrahim 277 –78 , 296 , 309 , 316 , 420
El-Tayib, Abdulla and Griselda 233 , 247 –48 , 398
Elwin, Whitwell 39
Empson, William 336 , 397
Eritrea 1 , 56 , 71n .27 , 145 , 329 , 380
Ewen visits 342
Eritrean Liberation Front 342
Erkowit 88 –90 , 173 , 249 –51
Hunka Rock 90 –91
Erkowit Study Camp 89 –93 , 126 , 148 , 172 –73 , 310
Ethiopia 1 , 71n .27 , 146 , 246 , 278 , 329
education system 360
Ewen visits 342 –43 , 358 –62
Harrar 358 –59
Ewen, Agnes 11 –12 , 18 , 63 , 172 , 204 , 320 , 334
correspondence with D.R. Ewen 19 –20 , 299
death and funeral rites 377
job at U of Aberdeen Library 44 , 177
politics of 12 , 59 , 230 , 377
takes Adult Education classes 252 , 377
on Thomas Carlyle 147
tours Russia 272 , 275
visit to Sudan 279 –80 , 287 –88
Ewen, Alan 12 –13 , 15
assists at mother’s funeral rites 377
Ewen avoids wedding of 217
judgment on Ewen’s letter-writing 19
Ewen, D.R. (Dick)
193
academic advancement 17 , 142 , 225 , 302 , 319 –22 , 344 , 349
appears on Radio Omdurman 249 , 256 –57
on British imperialism 16 –17 , 77 –78 , 134 , 137 , 158 , 170
on Communism 47 , 125 , 239
on democracy 154
early life and education 11 –18 , 204
and friendship 15 , 59 , 116 , 378 –79
and gardening 206 –7 , 213 , 215 , 218 , 242 , 251 , 260 , 297 , 311 , 362
on Germans 234 , 272
on the good society 367
on Harold Macmillan 266
as host 212 –13 , 235 –36 , 267 –68 , 276 , 297 –98 , 326 , 327 , 348 , 379
as hostel warden 184 –85 , 248 –49 , 263 , 274 –75 , 289 , 312 , 363 –64 , 368
as letter-writer 18 –21 , 44 , 207 , 231 , 272 , 285 , 299 , 367
on Islam 142 , 156
learning Arabic 133 , 169 , 190
meets visiting celebrities 143 , 198 , 222 , 344 , 347 , 375
on morality 49 –50 , 81 , 193
music 14 , 17 , 119 , 142 –43 , 151 , 177 , 199 , 245 , 308 , 323 , 335
post-Sudan appointments 377 –79
research and publications 174 , 198 , 340 , 348 , 378
as sailor 62 , 69 –70 , 291 , 367 –68
self-doubt and depression 84 , 95 , 128 , 164 , 220 , 221 , 249 , 379
self-invention of 1 , 2 , 19 , 93 , 120 , 152 , 191 , 249
and servants 52 –53 , 103 , 116 , 119 , 121 , 140 , 175 –76 , 212 , 219 –20 , 224 –25 , 246 , 323
sexuality 126 –27 , 174 , 377
students, social relations with 148 –49 , 189 , 191 , 197 –98 , 276 –78
on the Sudanese 47 , 118 , 131 , 134 –35 , 138 , 152 , 170 , 191 , 197 , 242 , 261 , 275 –76
supports his mother 13 , 279 , 290 , 291 , 332 , 347 , 352
surveilled in Addis Ababa 360 –61
on Thomas Carlyle 147
tours Darfur 253 –55
tours Egypt 216 , 295
tours Ethiopia 342 –43 , 358 –62
tours Meroë and Abu Simbel 292 –95 , 335
tours South Sudan 95 –107 , 188 –91
tours Uganda and Kenya 107 –16
tutors Russian diplomats 239 , 252 , 272
war service 13 –15
Farid, Major General Mohammed Talaat 326 , 399
Farouk, King 33 , 34 , 61 , 78 , 116 , 136
Farquarson-Lang, William Marshall 64 , 102 –3 , 107 , 399
Farrell, H.B.M. 104 –5 , 399
Fawzi, Saad Ed Din 47 , 247 –48 , 399
Feast of Sacrifice 119 , 144 , 217
Feiling, Keith 232n .18
FGM (female circumcision) 28
First, Ruth 227
Frost, John 89
Gadallah, Dr Fawzi Fahim 297
Gaitskell, Arthur 71 , 400
Gaitskell, Hugh 71n .26 , 231
Gessi, Romolo 97 –98
Gezira Scheme 71 , 158 , 175 , 198 , 373
Managil expansion of 265n .8 , 282
Ghana 26 , 262 , 281 , 322 , 324 , 364
Gibbon, Edward 152
Gil-Riaño, Sebastián 93
Gladstone, William 16 , 32 , 77
Goldsmith, Oliver 164 –65
Gordon Cabaret 54 –55
Gordon, General Charles George 16 , 32 –33 , 75 , 139
abolishes slaving in Kordofan 189
anti-China activities 346
“punished” by El Mahdi 346
Gordon Memorial College 16 , 17 , 18 , 23 –25
affiliated institutions 24
becomes University College 25 –26
Wilfrid Blunt on 224
see also University College of Khartoum
Gordon’s Tree (Tree of Maha Bey) 74
Grant, Michael 209 , 212 , 220 –21 , 235 , 247 , 256 , 400
Great Britain Cabaret 54 , 128
Greene, Graham 61
Gretton, George 333
Griffiths, James 55 –56
Griffiths, Vincent Llewellyn 68 , 182 , 400
Guatemala 193 , 194
haboob (sand storm) 37
Hadendowa (people) 77n .8 , 90 , 173 , 250 , 251
Halayeb Triangle 257
Hamid, Hamid Ibrahim 320 , 401
Hamza, Abdel Aziz al-Nasri 148 , 186 , 401
Hamza, Sayed Mirghani 173 , 401
Hardie, James Keir 61
Hardy, Thomas 49
Harmsworth, Alfred (Lord Northcliffe) 76n .3
Hart, Eric and Elsie 17 , 38 , 57 , 59 , 176 , 208 , 401 –2
farewell speech 196 –97
hosts Ingledews’ wedding reception 188
relations with students 52
verdict on Gordon Memorial College 18
Hassan (servant) 52 –53
Hassan, Hassan Ahmed 291 , 402
Hassan, Osman Mohamed 176 –77 , 188 –91 , 193 , 198 , 306 , 327 , 402
Hassoun, Isam Ahmed 119 –120 , 402
Hayward, Vera 244 , 326 –27 , 401
Hazlitt, William 18 , 48
Hazm, Ibn, The Ring of the Dove 174
Henderson, Kenneth 182 –83
Herodotus 292
Higgins, Austin and Isobel 307 , 332 , 402
Hillal, Abdel Aziz 148 , 403
Hodgkin, Robin Allason and Elizabeth 69 , 403
Hone, William 378
House, Humphrey 198 –99
Howe, Sir Robert G. 58 , 65 , 403
Hungary, Soviet invasion of 228 , 230 –31
Hutchinson, Sir Joseph 344
Huxley, Thomas 51 –52
Ibrahim (gardener) 207 , 242 , 280 , 283 , 403 –4
Ibrahim, Riad 29
Ibsen, Henrik 61 , 210 , 321 , 322
independence movements, African 114 , 202 , 211 , 237 , 281 , 342
Ingledew, David 379
Ingledew, John and Celia 200 , 267 , 379 , 404
denounces British invasion of Canal Zone 231
encounters Sudanese colour prejudice 210 –11
friendship with Ewen 180 , 187 , 199 , 336
tutoring Russians 227 , 238 –39
wedding and honeymoon 187 –88
Iran 56 , 84 –85 , 150 , 194 , 239
Iraq 194 , 240 , 261 , 262 , 274 , 319
Ireland, Home Rule 77
Irwa, Major-General Mohamed Ahmed 332
Ishaq, Mustafa Hassan 89 –90 , 128 , 155 , 164 , 175 404
Islam 28 –29 , 80 , 172 , 194
Churchill on 343
Ewen on 156
politicised 85 , 139 , 217 , 357 –58 , 367 , 380 –81
Islamic Charter Front 357
Islamic Movement for Liberation 61
Ismail, Osman Sid Ahmed 179 , 209 , 405
Ismail the Magnificent 32
Israel 33 , 193 , 208 , 228 , 261 , 366
Italy 33 , 84 , 130 , 281 , 342 , 369
Janjaweed 181n .16 , 255
jazz diplomacy 298
Jebel Aulia Dam 344
Johnson, Samuel 101
Jordan 194 –95 , 261
Juba 67 , 98 , 102 , 107 , 116 , 167 , 202 , 318
Kampala 109 –12 , 318
Kapuściński, Ryszard 298
Kashaba, Ali 261
Kashawa, Osman 188 –91 , 197 , 253 –55 , 299 , 405 –6
Kashmir 55
Keats, John 2 –3 , 61 , 146
Kennedy, J.F. 313 , 314 , 322 , 366
Kent, David 378
Kenya 112 –15
anti-Indian prejudice in 113 –14
independence movements 114 , 237
Kenyatta, Jomo 114 , 281 , 298
Keshkekian, Shaké 186 , 225 –27 , 258 , 326 , 351 –52 , 377 , 406
Khalil, Abdulla Bey 290
military career 227
as Prime Minister 217 , 247 , 258 , 262 , 264
tension with Egypt 227 , 257 –58 , 261 , 265 –66
toppled and imprisoned by Abboud 264 , 265 –66 , 307 , 318
Khartoum
78 –79
Caledonian Society of 8 , 64 , 127 –28
compared to Kampala, Uganda 110 –11
entertainments 43 , 54 –55 , 61 –62 , 120 , 128 , 143 , 187 , 280 , 325
Festival of Culture 146-7 , 210
insect pests 54 , 159 , 251 , 284
Jewish community 43 , 208 , 246
laid out by Kitchener 37
sanitary services in 38 , 39 , 274
siege of 16 , 33
and slavery 80
solar eclipse at 83
street-lighting in 75 , 264 , 288
see also drama productions in Khartoum
Khartoum Film Society 340 –41
Khatmia order 29 , 59 , 88 , 155 , 162 , 170 , 265 , 285
Khedive 32
Khomeini, Ayatollah 150
Khrushchev, Nikita 211 , 272 , 313 , 314
King George VI 75 , 82
Kipling, Rudyard 77 –78 , 106 , 223
Barrack-Room Ballads 77
contrasted with W.B. Yeats 78
The Light that Failed 77n .9
Kirby, Dr Christine 218 –19 , 244 , 406
Kirim, Mustafa Awad Abdul 320 , 406
Kitchener, Lord Horatio Herbert 17 , 37 , 92
controls press releases 76
desecrates Mahdi’s skeleton 287
dispute with Lord Curzon 197
proposes educational college 23 , 220
wins Battle of Omdurman 17 , 33
Kitchener School of Medicine 26 , 27 , 28 , 307
Kodakov, Mr 235 , 406
Kordofan 69 , 106 , 153 , 155 , 176 , 188 –91 , 325 , 383
Kosti (Kusti) 67 , 95 , 96
prison deaths at 215 , 217
Kubinski, Zbigniew M. 249 –50 , 251 , 406
Kurban Bairam (Feast of Sacrifice) 119 , 144 , 148 , 217
Lamb, Charles 18 , 48
Lamond, Stanley 57 , 62 , 91 , 128 , 129 –30 , 196 , 407
Lascelles, Mary 198
Lawrence, D.H. 167 , 200 , 291
Lawrence of Arabia (film) 336
Lawrence, T.E. 224 , 284
Lau, Beth 195n .5
Leavis, F.R. and Q.D. 3 , 15 , 45
Lebanon 241 , 261 , 369
Lebon, John 145 , 407
leprosy 104 –5
Lever, J.W. (Walter) 208 –9 , 243 , 260 , 407
Lewis, W. Scott 217
literature, English
championed by Scots educators 4 –5
transcendent claims for 24 –25
predicted decline of 5 –7
Li-yubu 104
Lockhart, Howard M. 249
locust plague 145 , 179
Lumumba, Patrice 281 , 300 , 305 , 369
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 2
Macleay, Kenneth 41 , 52 , 307 , 317 , 407 –8
Macmillan, Harold 241 , 266 , 341
MacNeice, Louis 198
Macrae, Alasdair 350 , 408
Mahdi, El 29 , 32 –33 , 37 , 74 , 88 , 92 , 139
head buried at Wadi Halfa 287
supported by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 224
Mahdi’s Mausoleum 41
Mahdi’s Mosque (Kosti) 67
Mahdist followers 29 , 168 –69 , 255 , 287
Mahgoub, Mohammed Ahmed 91 , 408
Mahir, Ali 116
Malakal 98 , 154 , 180
Malawi 351 , 363
Maley, Willy 349
Manchester Guardian 230 , 231 –32
Mandela, Nelson 237 , 319 , 363
Mansfield Park 79 –81
Mao Zedong 346
Marshall, James and Innes 360 , 361 , 409
Masindi 108
Mather, Sir William 24
Maugham, Somerset 108 , 192
Mau Mau 114 , 202 , 237
Mawlid (Prophet’s Birthday) Festival 72 , 127 , 227 , 285
Mboro, Clement 362
McGonagall, William 76
McMillan, Sadie 203 , 408
Mecca 92 , 263 –64
Médecins sans Frontières 382
Michael (servant) see Aginaski, Michael Lado
Michael, Ian 339 , 342 –43 , 351 , 409
Middle Africa 339
Middleton, Sir George 369 , 409
Millais, John Guile 100
MI6 150 , 217
Mittins, William 338 –39
Mobutu, Sese Seko 281
Mohamed (servant) 53 , 55 , 63 , 65 , 72 , 94 , 121 , 260 , 410
contracts malaria 119
dismissal of 212 , 219
as imperialist 82 , 128 , 139 –40
marries 87
neglected on Southern tour 103 , 116
Moller, Nancie 284 , 286 –87 , 410
Ewen’s memory of 287
Morgan, Hugh 307 , 316 , 410 –11
Morocco 211 , 236
Mubarak, Musa 179 , 253 , 411
Mukhtar, Colonel Ahmed 325 , 411
Mure, Geoffrey 15
Murray, Gilbert 111
Murray, William 260 –61 , 273 , 301 , 303 , 317 , 337 , 348 , 376 , 411
in amateur dramatics 324
leaves for Lancaster 338 , 349
staff management by 283 , 302 , 306 , 308 , 351
tours Meroë 335
Musil, Robert, Young Törless 297
Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt) 58 , 125 , 165 , 166 , 167 , 180 , 193
Muslim Brotherhood (Sudan) 124 –25 , 142 , 155 , 166 , 210 , 356 , 357 , 370
Naguib, General Mahommed 116 –17 , 121 , 123 –24 , 135 , 150 , 165 , 174
ousted by Nasser 167 , 193 –94
visits Khartoum 168 –69 , 201
Nairobi 113 –14 , 335
Napoleon 31
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 165 , 167 , 174 , 228 , 258
aspirations to Arab leadership 194 , 239 , 261
escapes assassination 180 , 193
founds Non-Aligned Movement 212
nationalises British banks 239
nationalises Suez Canal 217 –18 , 240
opposes Baghdad Pact 239 –40
pushes Nile Waters dispute 265
visits Khartoum 288 –89 , 315
National Front 30n .76 , 59 , 60 , 154
National Struggle Front 59 –60 , 78
National Unionist Party (NUP) 136 , 167 , 290 , 370
electoral irregularities 155 , 246
electoral success and reverses 156 , 163 , 258
formation 29 , 154
strong support in Khartoum 168
see also Ashigga Party
NATO 84 , 140 , 312
Nazism 93
Neruda, Pablo 3
New, Derek 334 , 412
New Statesman 124 , 230 , 252
Newbold, Sir Douglas 44 , 65
Newbolt, Sir Henry 76
Nield, Bert 307 , 412
Nile Basin Initiative, 71n .27
Nile Waters dispute 71 , 258 , 265 , 278 –79 , 288
Nimule 107 , 109 , 115 –16
Nixon, Richard 228 , 241 , 272
Nkrumah, Dr Kwame 262 , 281 , 298
Nour, Mohammed Abdalla 321 , 412
Nuba (people) 155 , 190
Nuba Mountain Province 189 , 190 –191
Nuer (people) 382 , 383
Numayri, Colonel Jaafar 380
Nyala 182 , 253 –55 299 , 305
Observer 44 , 76n .3 , 230
O’Donoghue, Pat 284 , 320 , 412
O’Gorman, Ned 291
O’Hagen, Andrew 13
Oliver, John 324 , 335 , 412 –13
Olivier, Sir Laurence 348
Omdurman 21 , 25 , 41 , 144 , 149 , 352 , 368
festivals and rallies at 59 , 127 , 136 , 139
public institutions at 136 , 202 , 265 , 280 , 284 , 298 , 316 , 321n .8 , 331
Omdurman, Battle of 17 , 23 , 33 , 224 , 287
Omerka, Mohomed 334
Organisation of African Unity 360
Osman, Ahmed Sayed 169 , 285 , 413
Osman, Nur and Margaret 280 , 306 , 355 –56 , 413
Osman, Omer Mohamed 282 , 413
Othello 211 , 304
Owen, Brewster 69 –70 , 413
Owen, T.R.H. (Richard) 171 , 414
Ewen’s ideal administrator 106 , 136
Owen, Wilfred 48 –49
Oxford University
Balliol College 37 , 54 , 369
Corpus Christi College 106
Keble College 54
Merton College 15 , 17 , 38 , 119
Palestine 33 , 208 , 261
pan-Africanism 360 , 366
Pan-Africanist Congress 281
Pankhurst, Richard 360
Paris Massacre 311
Passmore, Lilian 284 , 300 , 419
Pattison, Bruce 245 , 296 , 336 , 414
Pattullo, William and Etty 306 –7 , 414 –15
Peacock, Thomas Love 2
Crotchet Castle 97
The Misfortunes of Elphin 123
Nightmare Abbey 134
Peking Chinese Opera 215 –16
Penson, Dame Lillian 222
People’s Democratic Party 265
Percival, David 324
Perham, Margery 87 , 174n .11
Philip, Prince 344 , 369 –75
Pollet, Maurice 336 , 415
Port Sudan 284 , 305 , 331 , 370 , 384
coral-free port 92
Ewen holidays at 129 –31 , 159 –61 , 332
Ingledews honeymoon at 188
Red Sea Hotel 129 , 283
Powell, Eve M. Troutt 31
Price, Hugh 334 , 337 , 415
Priestley, J.B. 151
Profumo Affair 336
Proust, Marcel 219
Provinces of Sudan
Bahr al Ghazal 1 , 10 , 106
Blue Nile 64 , 383
Darfur 1 , 176 , 181 –83 , 253 –55 , 305 , 382 –83 , 384
Equatoria 1 , 103 , 104 , 201 , 202 , 216 , 225 , 247 , 383
Fung 64
Kassala 106 , 299
Khartoum 58
Kordofan 67 , 69 , 106 , 190 –91 , 383
Northern 37
Nubia Mountain 189 , 190 –91
Upper Nile 154
White Nile 64 , 106
Prowse, Gerald 142 , 196 , 415
Pyo, Yein 356
Queen Elizabeth 140 , 369 –75
Queen Mary 140
Queen Victoria 16 , 23
Quo Vadis (film) 193
Radio Omdurman 21 , 249 , 256 , 257 , 265
Rahman, Salih Farah Abdel 148 , 416
Ramadan 53 , 288 , 335
Randell, Dorothy 331
Ranger, Terence 36
Rattigan, Terence 305
Raveneau, Gérard and Marie-Jeanne 328 , 416
Rehfisch, Farnham 332 , 416
Riddell, Anne 326 , 336 , 416 –17
Rimbaud, Arthur 359
Robbie, James and Margaret 75 , 417
Robertson, Sandy and Margaret 175 , 181 , 182 –83 , 417 –18
Robertson, Sir James 64 –65 , 417
Roundtree, William 343
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 172
Ruay, Deng D. Akol 201
Rumbek 116 , 181
Russell, Bertrand 15 , 111 , 193
Ruttley, Eric 196
Rzoska, Julian 39 , 53 , 245 , 418
SACDNU (Sudan African Closed District National Union) 318
Salem, Salah 135 –36 , 179 , 419
Salih, Tayeb 350
Sanderson, George 37 , 86 , 87 , 204 , 219 , 228 , 265 , 351 , 363 , 419
co-hosts parties with Ewen 212 , 235 –36 , 267
leaves for Nigeria 320
marries Lilian Passmore 284
returns to the UK 376
snoring problem 160 –61
SANU (Sudan African National Union) 318
Sassoon, Sigfried 48 –49
Saville, Don and Elizabeth 307
schools 28 , 47 , 63 , 69 , 117 , 305 , 327 , 345
adult students at 46
Arabisation of 95
Cambridge Overseas School Certificate 157 –58 , 304 , 305 , 336
de La Warr Commission on 25
disrupted by civil war 216 , 328 –29
Ewen inspects in South 103 –4
Islamisation of 139 , 247
levels of schools 28
protest action at 61 , 125 , 212 , 370 , 374
secondary schools segregated 28
teacher training for 68
unionism at 46
Scott, Sir Ian Dixon 368 –69 , 419
Scrulton, Mary 111
Seko, Mobutu Sese 281
Sennar Dam 269 , 282
Sen, Sukumar 153
Serjeant, Robert 222
Shaddad, Kamal 276 –77 , 280
Sham-el-Naseem (holiday) 302
Shariah Law 29 , 222 , 357 , 380 , 381
Sharkey, Heather 2
Shaw, George Bernard 52
Candida 57
The Devil’s Disciple 304
Heartbreak House 224
Major Barbara 111n .53
Pen Portraits & Reviews 61
on revolutionary responsibility 224
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 241 , 267 , 377
Shenan, Brigadier ‘Abd al-Rahim 269 , 271
Shibeika, Mekki 247 –48 , 320 , 420
Shinnie, Peter 293 , 294
Shoush see El Shoush, Mohamed Ibrahim
Sicherman, Carol 25 –26
Sillitoe, Alan 284
Sir Roger de Coverley (dance) 8
slavery 32 , 34 , 35 , 97 , 101 , 189 , 253 , 358 , 382
Khartoum and 80
Smith, Dean 286
Smith, Isobel 339 , 358 , 420 –21
Smith, Michael 65 , 421
Snow, C.P. 157
Socialist Republican Party 60 , 155
solar eclipse 83
Somalia 33 , 281
Southern Party 30 , 155 –56
Soviet Embassy, Khartoum
paranoia and inefficiency at 238 –39
requests English lessons 227 –28 , 235 , 252
Spector, Ivor 240 –41
Stalin, Joseph 150 , 314
Stansfield, Frank 249 , 267 , 307 , 310 , 316 , 317 , 324 , 421
attends Erkowit Summer School 311
breaks leg in Italy 320
ideas on hospitality 297 –98
tours Ethiopia with Ewen 342 –43 , 358 –59
visits Darfur with Ewen 253 –55
visits Meroë and Abu Simbel with Ewen 292 –95
Steiner, George 198
Stendhal 3 , 219
Stoler, Anne 10
Strong, Baring 47
student activism 24 , 45 –46
see also University College of Khartoum: student protest
Students’ Congress 47 , 54 , 61
reappears as Democratic Front 183
Students’ Union (University College of Khartoum) 128 , 146 , 256 , 263
censored by University 279 , 288 , 296
major factions in 124 –25
seeks international affiliations 117 , 165
strongly political 45 –46 , 176
Suakin 91 –93 , 310 –11
appeal for the Briton 20 , 333
censorship in 271 , 282 , 353 –54
civil wars in 202 , 380 , 382 , 383
Communism introduced to 47
curtails Christian missionary activity 247 , 282 , 329 , 346
dam construction in 282
education in 9 , 22 –27 , 36 , 94 –95 , 247
electoral procedures of 153 –56
epidemics in 20 , 72 , 106 , 189
ethnicity of 30 –31 , 93
foreign investment in 333
introduces income tax 352
law court procedures in 122 , 316
military coups in 1 , 30 , 264 –66 , 269 , 279 , 380
Nile Waters dispute 71 , 258 , 265 , 278 –79 , 288
North-South divide 22 –23 , 30 , 78 , 80 , 93 , 94 , 117 , 126 , 180 , 201 –3 , 362 –63
political history of 2 , 7 , 22 , 33 –35 , 59 –60 , 78 , 153 –56 , 179 –80 , 210 , 214 –15 , 257n .1 , 333 , 352 –58 , 380 –83
relations with the US 116 , 241 , 259 , 266 , 333 , 366
river travel in 67 , 70
sends troops abroad 281 , 318 –19
Shariah Law in 29 , 222 , 357 , 380 , 381
slavery abolished in 35 , 80 , 101 , 189
slavery reintroduced 189 , 382 , 384
South’s insurgency 201 –3 , 214 –15 , 216 , 328 –30 , 362 –63 , 380
strategic importance of 116 , 291 , 366
strikes in 46 , 47 , 85 , 144 , 307 –8 , 355 –57 , 380
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of 269 , 270 , 271 , 346 , 356
train travel in 66 –67 , 87 –88 , 131 , 162
tries to Arabise the South 295
Sudan African Closed District National Union (SACDNU) 318
Sudan African National Union (SANU) 318
Sudan Club, Khartoum 61 –62 , 183
amenities of 19 , 42 , 43 , 249 , 280
conversation at 120
Ewen resigns from 302
nationalised 259 –60
Sudan Daily 326 , 363
Sudan People’s Liberation Army 380
Sudanese Women’s Union 133 , 142
Sudd (swamp) 97 –98
Suez Canal
history to 1950 32 –34 , 77
passage through 304 , 337
post-1950 decolonisation of 57 –58 , 183 , 217 –18 , 228 –33 , 241
Sulla (servant) 175 –76
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces 269 , 270 , 271 , 346 , 356
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 224
Symons, Arthur 224
Tanganyika (Tanzania) 114 , 279 , 381
Tayeb, Abdalla and Griselda 233 , 337
Taylor, John H. 292
Taylor, Sir Thomas 185
Tenenbaum, Elcana and Enid 111 –12 , 209 , 285 , 286 , 306 , 320 , 336 , 421
Tertrais, Bruno 312
Thebes 205 , 216
Theobald, Alan and Ellen 17 , 180 –81 , 186 , 271 , 421 –22
advise Ewen 53 , 272
as hosts 37 , 73 , 196
generous examiner 157
writing book on Ali Dinar 254
Thin Line, The (Edward Atiyah) 122
Thomson, Alistair 274 , 422
Torit Rebellion 202
Toynbee, Arnold 347
Tree of Maha Bey (Gordon’s Tree) 74
Tunisia 84 , 236
Turkey 56 , 84 , 183 , 194 , 328
UAR see United Arab Republic
Uganda 67 , 108 –12 , 118 , 320 , 330 , 380
might absorb Southern Sudan 94
anti-Indian prejudice in 113 –14 , 115
dislikes British rule 156
gains independence 328
and Nile Waters agreement 279
railways in 109
reinforces border with Sudan 345
escape route for Southern rebels tab 202 , 203 , 295
banned 30 , 309 , 381
electoral results of 156 , 258
founding, affiliation and goals 29 , 59 , 155 , 357
leadership of party 137 , 139 , 162 , 217 , 269 , 287 , 290
minority support in Khartoum 168
Nyala stronghold of support for 255
resists military dictatorship 356
supplied civil servants pre-Independence 163 , 174
unions, student 45 –46
see also Students’ Union (University College of Khartoum)
United Arab Republic (UAR) 257 , 261 , 265 , 278 , 288 , 348 , 357
United Arab States 261
United National Front (UNF) 356
United Nations (UN) 33 , 60 , 262 , 300 , 318 , 319 , 339n .4 , 367 , 381
University College of Khartoum
becomes independent University 27 , 180 , 220 –21
compared to Makerere College, Kampala 110 –11
curriculum at 48 –49 , 76 –77 , 141 , 147 , 267n .11 , 301 , 334
examination results at 81 , 83 –84 , 132 , 245 , 305
Fine Arts Society 369
government control of 296 –97 , 341 , 344
link to University of London 25 –26 , 27 , 180
Literary Circle 286 , 291 , 340
Music Circle 142 , 187 , 196
Newbold Library 44 , 68
pedagogical goals of 26 –27
staff housing at 41 –42 , 204 –5
staff strike at 344
student cohort of 27 –31 , 111 , 209 , 221 , 320 , 321 , 338
student hostels at 184 , 263 , 284 , 287 , 289 , 290 , 312 , 352 , 355
student politics at 124 –25 , 147 , 183 –84 , 209 , 212 , 229
student protests 58 , 165 –66 , 209 , 215 , 279 , 287 , 296 , 311 –12 , 329 , 340 , 352 , 354 –55
student strikes 21 , 27 , 46 , 125 , 166 , 184 , 234 –35 , 296 –97 , 309 , 311 , 340 , 344 , 346
Students’ Union 45 –46 , 117 , 124 , 125 , 128 , 146 , 176 , 256 , 263 , 279 , 288 , 296 , 354
Sudanisation of 27 , 173 , 234 –35 , 271 , 320
University of Aberdeen 16 , 139 , 143 , 177
alumni of 51 , 143 , 149 , 284
employs Agnes Ewen 44 , 177
Ewen studies at 2 , 12 , 14 , 15
race paranoia at 195
University of Khartoum
adopts semester calendar 340
expanded curriculum of 221 , 376
opens women’s hostel 244
language of instruction 221
staffing of 221 , 320 , 348 –49
University Teachers’ Association formed 357
see also University College of Khartoum
USA diplomacy 85 , 211 –12 , 217 , 241 , 266 , 312 , 366 , 381 , 384
assessment of Sudan 333
assists Egypt coup 116
assists Iran coup 150
assists Lebanon President 261
Cuban invasion fails 314
deposes Guatemalan President 194
protests Israel’s invasion of Egypt 228
USA Peace Corps 360
USSR 261
intervenes in Suez Crisis 233
invades Hungary 228 –29 , 230
launches satellite 251
supports Kurds 194
see also Soviet Embassy
Virgoe, Roger 334 , 423
Wadi Halfa 37 , 87 , 287 , 288 , 331
Wad Medani 70 , 71 , 357 , 373 , 375
Wallace, Penny 15
Watania Cinema 119 , 120
Wau 106 , 346
Waugh, Evelyn 96 , 359
Weir, Donald 311 , 320 , 338 , 423
Wesker, Arnold 284
West, David 348
White Flag League 227
Whiting, John 267
Wilcher, Lewis 17 , 59 , 87 , 157 , 159 , 180 , 185 , 204 , 423 58 , 61 , 212
education and early career 53 –54
Ewen’s view of 54 , 72 –73 , 209 , 247
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray 127 , 154
Williams, Haydn 228 , 238 , 286 , 379 , 424
Willoughby, John 378
Wingate, General Sir Francis Reginald 10 , 89
Wodehouse, P.G. 2 , 149 , 152 , 310 , 348 , 364 –65
Yambio 105 , 201
Yeats, W.B. 3 , 78 , 147 , 152
Yei 104 , 260
Yemen 194 , 261 , 331
Youé, Christopher P. 36
Zande (people) 104 –5 , 197 , 201
Zande Mutiny 202 , 203
Zande Scheme 105 , 197 –98 , 201
Zarfouk, Mubarek 236