الأستاذ محمود محمد طه لأمنا آمنة: هذا بعض ما أرسلتني لأحضره، فهو منك و إليك (صور)

Quote: Republican activism While nationalist leaders manoeuvred to control the state, the Republicans took their anti-imperialist message to the public squares, cinemas and cafés. The pamphlets that Yusuf Lutfi smuggled past the police outside Taha's house were collected by the members who distributed them in coffee houses and cinemas. Amin Siddig would cover Khartoum North, giving out pamphlets and giving speeches in coffee-houses and outside cinemas. The activists would make their speech and then dive off to another venue, so that in one night they would have covered three or four places, and made the party appear bigger than it was. The activists were choosing their audience by their choice of venue - the younger, male citizens of modern Sudan. The party had a constitution and office-bearers, western style. Their audiences shared their exposure to the modern and foreign, paying for their leisure in cafes and cinemas. Sometimes the party men were picked up by the police, and they spent a night in custody - they even sent a telegram to the speaker of the British house of commons to complain at the government's "war against freedom of expression" . This telegram is dated the first of October 1945, a few weeks before the date given in all Republican sources surveyed here. Perhaps the party had been organising informally before they issued their manifesto.