Word: sudanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy to see them himself, Nasser asked Sudan-born Major Salem to take care of the visitors. From that moment on, Salem, then 31, took full charge of all affairs concerning the Sudan, a vast million-square-mile colony itching to break the bond that for the past 56 years has bound it to the joint control of Great Britain and Egypt...
...visit to a jungle village in South Sudan, Salem unabashedly whipped off his pants and, clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out in the Sudan, pointed to the picture as the kind of thing they would never stoop to do: colonies may be lost but never one's dignity...
...large, obscure hall. There were many men and women gathered there-slaves like myself. I managed to escape . . . Several times I tried to slip aboard boats leaving for Africa. But the police were on my tracks. Nevertheless, I managed to stow away in a cargo ship and reached the Sudan. I was free...
...proud man and there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury, and many procurers in the French Sudan, Ubangi-shari. Chad, the Cameroons and some British territories are ready and willing to satisfy their needs on "the ebony market" at prices ranging from $1,150 to a paltry $570 per slave (women usually sell for slightly more than men). La Graviére's charges...
Passing through Rome on a business safari to Africa, Democrat Adlai Stevenson taxied up to Premier Mario Scelba's villa to lunch with U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and the Italian Premier, then flew for a three-week trip through Kenya, the Sudan, Uganda and Southern Rhodesia...