Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright page / Author: Russell McDougall -- Acknowledgements / Author: Russell McDougall -- A Note on the Text / Author: Russell McDougall -- Historical Nomenclature / Author: Russell McDougall -- Figures / Author: Russell McDougall -- Introduction / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1951 - Native Quarter / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1952 - Crossing the Bar / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1953 - Serpent's Tooth / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1954 - Assassins at the Tea Party / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1955 - Mutiny / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1956 - Crisis / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1957 - Birds over the Bottomless Lake / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1958 - An End to Democracy / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1959 - Bogged on the Runway / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1960 - The Year of Africa / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1961 - Cold War / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1962 - Backwater Paradise / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1963 - The Widening Gyre / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1964 - Revolution / Author: Russell McDougall -- 1965 - Leaving / Author: Russell McDougall -- Afterword / Author: Russell McDougall -- A Who's Who of Ewen's Sudan / Author: Russell McDougall -- Works Cited / Author: Russell McDougall -- Index / Author: Russell McDougall.

Letters 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.

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