A Civil Society Deferred

Review by Aly Verjee – Rift Valley Institute – previously published by Chatham House here (p.664). A debate on the book was also published on Making Sense of Sudan here A civil society deferred is published as Sudan’s crisis of

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Abdullahi has produced another stimulating book triggering further thoughts about the state in Sudan and civil society. It looks at efforts to control society as it has been experienced under successive states from the Turco-Egyptian period to the present; and

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“Men make their own history, “ wrote a famous individual long ago, “but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”

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On July 9, 2011, South Sudan became the world’s newest state. If “all dates are conventional” as Burno Latour says, 2011 and 1821 (the date of the ‘creation’ of Sudan under Egyptian rule,) are “a little less so than some.”

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A debate on Abdullahi Gallab’s A Civil Society Deferred It’s a good time to be writing a book about Sudan. Southern secession has brought the country back into the spotlight, which had faded after the initially noisy response to the

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