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Author: Abdelwahab El-Affendi

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Abdelwahab El-Affendi

  • Politics
    By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    August 29, 2009
    1756
    0

    From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (3)

    III. The Mbeki Mission and the Way Forward Mamdani is right on target in his criticism of the Save Darfur tendency to offer simplistic solutions and ...
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  • Politics
    By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    August 28, 2009
    1813
    2

    From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (2)

    II. The State, War and Sudanese Identity Mamdani has in fact written not one book, but several. His attack on the enthusiastic but misinformed international response ...
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  • Politics
    By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    August 27, 2009
    1610
    0

    From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (1)

    I. Recolonisation without Responsibility As many commentators have already pointed out, Mahmood Mamdani’s recent book, Saviors and Survivors has almost single-handedly shifted the debate on Darfur ...
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  • Politics
    By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    August 5, 2009
    2502
    8

    The UN in Sudan: A Mission that Hates Success

    Reporting to the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Darfur last April, the U.N.-African Union Joint Special Representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, revealed to members ...
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  • Politics
    By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    April 13, 2008
    1924
    0

    The Future of the Sudanese Islamist Movement

    One of the great ironies of the Islamist adventure in coup-making (leading to the creation of the National Salvation regime in June 1989) was that the ...
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