My first impression was that despite the locusts we were better off in Kordofan than in Britain.
-British Colonial officer quoted in Bonds of Silk, Deng and Daly
It wasn’t the locusts but rather the Rukāb, Lice, that bugged me most about Kordofan although I might have picked them up anywhere, even on the EgyptAir flight outbound from Cairo. Yes, that must have been it, the Mummy’s Curse, King Tut’s Two Step, Cleopatra’s Claptrap.