Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City by Kenneth J. Perkins

Author:Kenneth J. Perkins [Perkins, Kenneth J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Middle Eastern, Social Science, Political Science, World, Regional Studies, General
ISBN: 9780813384849
Google: Nk2fDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 4597891
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1993-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. CRO 2/26/10. Intelligence. Personalities. The district commissioner went on to note that Shaikh Ali expended lavish sums on “things that impress the public-cars, electric fans, brass bedsteads, and jewelry” and that he “sees everything from the money angle.” The General Manager of Sudan Government Railways reported that Shaikh Ali’s contract, which had been worth £E5,500 at the end of World War I, was valued at £E25,000 in 1930. CRO 2/36/217. Labor. Employment of Sudanese and Foreigners. Letter from the GMSGR to the CS, Oct. 11, 1931.

2. On this division of labor, see Salah al-Din al-Shami, Bur Sudan: Mina’ al-Sudan al-Hadith (Cairo: Maktaba Misr, n.d. [1958]), pp. 37–38. Descriptions of the tasks traditionally performed by various groups also appear in CRO 1/25/111. RSP AR, 1927; and CRO 1/26/113. RSP AR, 1928.

3. CRO 1/27/124. RSP AR, 1918. The governor’s use of the conditional mood in this report (“if the future development of Port Sudan as a coaling port is required” [emphasis added]) suggests that, almost a decade after the official opening of the port, the full scope of its commercial role remained uncertain.

4. CRO 1/25/107. RSP AR, 1925.

5. CRO 1/27/125. RSP AR, 1923.

6. The details of this incident appear in CRO 2/36/217. Labor. Employment of Sudanese and Foreigners. Letter from the Gov, RSP to the GMSGR, June 23, 1925.

7. CRO 2/40/254. Shipping. Letter from the DC, PS to the Gov, RSP, Aug. 19, 1925.

8. CRO 2/36/217. Labor. Employment of Sudanese and Foreigners. Letter from the Gov, RSP to PM, PS, June 18, 1927.

9. Ibid. Letter from Shaikh Sadiq al-Amin to the Gov, RSP, June 15, 1927.

10. Ibid. Letter from the Wakil Nazir Hadendowa to the Gov, RSP, June 6, 1927.

11. Ibid. Letter from the Gov, RSP to the PM, PS, June 18, 1927.

12. Ibid. Letter from the PM, PS to the GMSGR, June 21, 1927.

13. Ibid. Letter from the DC, Hadendowa to the Gov, RSP, June 22, 1927.

14. Ibid. Letter from the Tribal Leaders of the Artaiga and Shaiab to the Gov, RSP, June 24, 1927. Several years later, when jobs at the port were particularly scarce, the commissioner received another flood of petitions. See CRO 2/28/177. Demonstrations, Manifestoes, and Telegrams.

15. CRO 1/25/111. RSP AR, 1927. The governor’s statement appears in CRO 2/36/217. Labor. Employment of Sudanese and Foreigners. Letter from the Gov, RSP to the DC, Tokar, Jan. 27, 1928. Much to the irritation of the Shaiab, the Amarar had secured a virtual monopoly of the port’s local labor contingent, effectively excluding Shaiab tribesmen who had sought to work there.

16. CRO 2/36/217. Labor. Employment of Sudanese and Foreigners. Letter from the Gov, RSP to the PM, PS, July 14, 1927.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid. Notes by the Gov, RSP on a Conversation with the Resident Engineer, PS and the PM, PS, Feb. 22, 1928. In a letter to the Gov, RSP, Apr. 12, 1928, the manager of the cotton gin echoed these sentiments. He had abandoned his plans to replace Yemeni workers with Sudanese because he had found the latter “quite unable to handle the heavy cotton packs…even with double the number of men.

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