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Quote: Yesterday my father made a competition between me & my sister. In which the first of us to find and write down the information about some particular information about our grandfather in a book known as “Transition in Africa” wins a prize. I was the first to find and write the information For finding it I had to search Google, and type in the books name and the author’s name. This was not the hardest part; the hardest part of the search was finding that particular part about my grandfather in the whole book. Obviously the book’s name “Transition in Africa” and my grandfather lived in Sudan so it was extremely hard, but I managed it. This is what I came up with: Transition in Africa A memoir by; Sir James Robertson When I first arrived on the White Nile, Sheikh Idris Habbani was Nazir of the Hassania. He was intelligent and good-looking, and had the knack of standing between the authorities and his people. Typified by the way in which he promised everything I asked, but in practice scaled down his actions to the lowest acceptable level. During my efforts to collect tax arrears he made lavish promises but never carried them out, providing only enough to prevent me from being too dissatisfied with him and his Sheikhs. Sheikh Idris Habbani had married to widow of Fadil. Son of Mahdi, who had been killed at Shukaba. He had a large family and in later years, when religious rivalries had spilled over into politics, some were to become active Mahdists. Fadil El Mahdi interned at Shukaba on the Blue Nile after the battle of Omdurman. Allegedly attempted escape 1899 and captured, tried and executed after a drumhead court-martial with his brother Bushra and Alkalifa Sharif. By Sir James Robertson