بعث بروفسير عبد الله علي إبراهيم برسالة لكل من إدارة مدارس كمبردج العالمية والمجلس البريطاني بالخرطوم يستفسرهما عن طبيعة علاقتهما بمدرسة كمبردج التي للدكتور أمين حسن عمر والمهندس السعيد محجوب عثمان، النافذين في النظام، علاقة بها. وأطلع المؤسستين على أن المدرسة المذكورة، والمعلن تابعيتها لكلية كمبردج وتتداخل مع المجلس البريطاني في برامج تعليم اللغة الإنجليزية، ستؤذي صيتهما لأنها ستُبني في ميدان عام لحي المعمورة بالخرطوم. ويصر السكان على الاحتفاظ به متنفساً للحي وملعباً للشباب في وظيفة التخطيط الأول له بينما تحرسه الشرط حالياً تأميناً لمزاعم كمبردج السودان بحق مستجد لها فيه . وقال البروف للمؤسستين إنه متى ما اتضحت صلتهما، كبرت أم صغرت، فسيكتب لهما عن الأمر بالتفصيل حسبة ليقفا على حيثياته ودقائقه أملاً في استخدام تأثيرهما الحسن على مالكي المدرسة لإقناعهم أن النزاع القائم مفسد لسمعة مؤسستيهما اللتين هما موضع احترام أجيال من السودانيين.
Dear Madame/Sir,
I am writing to ask if the British Council have anything to do with a Cambridge school in Khartoum associated with Dr.Amin Hasan Omer and Engineer Al-Saeed Mahjub. The first is a minster in al-Basihr’s government while the second is closely associated with the regime. The reason I am asking is that Cambridge Sudan appropriated unlawfully a playground in the Ma’mura neighborhood in Khartoum to build its campus in whose activities the British Council figures prominently. The act as you may know now is causing great consternation to the residents who are picketing the construction site. The youth who play football on this ground are pressuring the rest to violently confront the police force sent to guard the place for these men in high places. I wanted to clarify your association with Cambridge Sudan to begin writing a full complaint about it.
Waiting to hear from you, I remain respectfully,
Prof. Abdullahi A.Ibrahim
Emeritus professor of African History, University of Missouri, USA
Columnist, Khartoum Daily
President of the Sudanese Writers’ Union
Presidential hopeful , 2010 elections
I sent simultaneously a letter of inquiry to Cambridge International schools as follows:
Dear Madame/Sir,
I am writing to ask if Cambridge College have anything to do with a Cambridge school in Khartoum associated with Dr.Amin Hasan Omer and Engineer Al-Saeed Mahjub. The first is a minster in al-Basir’s government while the second is closely associated with the regime. The reason I am asking is that Cambridge Sudan appropriated unlawfully a playground in the Ma’mura neighborhood in Khartoum to build its campus. The act is causing great consternation to the residents who are picketing the construction site. The youth who play football on this ground are pressuring the rest to violently confront the police force sent to guard the place for these men in high places. I wanted to clarify this association with Cambridge Sudan to begin writing a full complaint about it. Waiting to hear from you, I remain respectfully
Prof Abdullahi A.Ibrahim
Emeritus professor of African History, University of Missouri, USA
Columnist, Khartoum Daily
President of the Sudanese Writers’ Union
Presidential hopeful , 2010 elections
Ibrahim, Abdullahi A. [IbrahimA@missouri.edu]
