Sudan

What roles did Egypt and Great Britain play in accordance to colonialism in Sudan?

The British ruled Sudan and were running it as a colony along with their Egyptian partners. They handed power of Sudan over to the Arabs who lived in the north when they left. The sudden unification of North and South caught the southern Africans by surprise. They were left with many unanswered questions about what had become of their Closed-Door-District policy that was set in on the south by the British when they had controlled Sudan. They also wanted to know how the southerners were going to catch up technologically and socially with the Northerners - they were far less educated, as well. What if they were forced to become slaves, and could do nothing of it because the North was in so much better shape than them? South Africa was baffled.

The Egyptians persuaded the British to avoid the creation of another country on the Nile. This was really pretty selfish, and left people like "The Lost Boys of Sudan" with nowhere to be. The lack of education and developed society is what really tore down Sudan. Nobody knew what to do, and Sudan wasn't stable enough to stand on its own. On January 1st, 1956, Sudan was officially declared "independent" because the British colonial masters had left.