‘Bonds of silk’: the human factor in the British administration of the Sudan

This book on the Anglo-Egyptian condominium government in the Sudan is based on interviews conducted by Francis Deng over the years between 1973 and 1981 with 31 British, 10 northern Sudanese and 7 southern Sudanese respondents. The views presented are those of elites who dealt in some degree directly with each other. The standard questionnaire used covered a wide spectrum of colonial experience, primarily dealing with the period 1930-1956. The book presents the views of the British, northern Sudanese and southern Sudanese on the following issues: early contacts, official and personal relations, working conditions and attitudes, nationalism and independence, and postcolonial contacts and perspectives.