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/ 6 October 2004

The rise and fall of English

Crumbling masonry, peeling paint and dusty patches where once were manicured lawns … The University of Khartoum has worn poorly under the searing Sudanese sun — as much as the language that the buttoned-up colonialists who built it came to spread. There are no official statistics for the number of English speakers in the country, but it is safe to say that they are few and far between. Change is in the air, however.