Making Sense of Sudan

Overview Since inaugurating hostilities in South Kordofan on June 5, 2011, Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) military aircraft have been engaged in relentless, widespread, and systematic attacks on civilian targets throughout the state, particularly in the Nuba Mountains.  Similarly, since

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When southern Sudanese voted to separate from Sudan almost one year ago, the relative calm of the polling belied its historic outcome: the actual secession of an African state. Following its long military and political struggle with Khartoum, South Sudan’s

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Historical memory is often short when Sudan is the subject, and the events of even the past year often become blurred or inadequately related to one another. This is especially dangerous because of the likely form that renewed war in

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17th December 2011 – School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) – London Introduction Since independence, the quest for a modern state has remained a central issue in Sudanese, and indeed African, politics. In Sudan, the conflict in the South

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If you turn up beyond the bustle of the market in Wau and bear slightly left as if turning to the Governor’s home, you find yourself tracing the edge of the red walls of the University of Bahr el-Ghazal.  Its

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Sally Healy is Associate Fellow, Africa Programme at Chatham House – she is the author of the recent report Hostage to conflict: prospects for building regional economic cooperation in the Horn of Africa The IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) region

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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.”

Read the rest of A View of Abdullahi Gallab’s A CIVIL SOCIETY DEFERRED from a precolonial perspective – By Jay Spaulding »

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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