Today, walking back from Mass, I took a different route and
spotted the Republican Palace Museum, which I hadn’t visited yet. It is housed in the old Anglican church, which
is a lovely building built at the beginning of the 20th century. Like both the
other museums I have visited, entry is free.
It is a small museum which houses a chronology of events in the struggle
for independence from Britain, followed by the earlier presidents, leading up
to the present day. Half the museum is
devoted to gifts from other Heads of State or Sudanese industries and states to
the current President. The most
beautiful was a very intricate Koran and case from Yasser Arafat. There is also a collection of vintage state cars
dating from colonial times to more recent times.
In the afternoon I met up with an English teacher at the
British Council to be given useful teaching materials.
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