She was probably never more herself than when descending the grand staircase at London's Palace Theatre, where she played for two unbroken years, with huge pink plumes bobbing on her head and 20 feet of ostrich feathers slithering behind her.
Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.