Yearly Archives: 2010
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Darfur: Sharp Increase in Lethal Violence
May 2010 saw the largest number of recorded violent fatalities in Darfur since the arrival of UNAMID in January 2008. According to the figures compiled by ... -
The Sudanese government’s “Othering” of Darfur in its Quest for Hegemony: “Women Without Men, Boys Without a Future”
This ethnography is based on extensive anthropological research for a period of about 16 months all together in the provincial town of Kebkabiya in North-Darfur (1990-1995). ... -
Darfur: Moral Discourses of the NIF in the 1990s
Karin Willemse’s analysis of the quotidian lives of a small group of adult women in Kebkabiya during the early 1990s raises many questions. Since others have ... -
West Sudan: Biographic Narratives of Working Women of Kebkabiya – Towards a New Methodology
Karin Willemse’s One Foot in Heaven: Narratives on Gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan is a highly theoretical, complex, 547-page long book by a Dutch feminist ... -
Small-Town Darfur in an Age of Government-Sponsored “Civilization”
A review of Karin Willemse, One Foot in Heaven: Narratives on Gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan (Leiden: Brill, 2007). “Women started making tea seven or ... -
Darfur: Gender, Islamism and the Crises
For social science research in Darfur, the 1990s were a black hole. After Darfur’s descent into violence at the end of the 1980s, and the National ... -
Thabo Mbeki: “Talking to the Enemy”
The speech by former South African President Thabo Mbeki at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, is published on the African Arguments website. It is ... -
The Heidelberg Darfur Dialogue Outcome Document
Since 2008, representatives of all political forces in Darfur, including representatives of civil society, have engaged in a dialogue addressing the root causes of the Darfur ... -
National Assembly Results for Sudan’s 2010 Elections: An Analysis
The results of the presidential elections in Sudan came as no surprise to many. When they were announced, most shrugged their shoulders, sharpened their cynicism and ... -
Thabo Mbeki: "Talking to the Enemy: the South African Experience"
Yesterday, former South African president Thabo Mbeki addressed the Fifth Al Jazeera Annual Forum in Doha, Qatar. He described and analysed in detail the South African ...