Strictly, the Sudan was not a British colony in the usual sense, but an ‘Anglo-Egyptian condominium’. Curious to reflect that three thousand years ago the whole of Egypt and the Northern part of the Sudan were ruled by Black African pharaohs from the Kingdom of Kush. Unlike many conquerors, the Kushitic rulers, rather than imposing their own ways on the vanquished Egyptians, adopted and adapted Egyptian styles. I visited the ancient pyramids in the sands of Northern Sudan in 1970.