African Arguments
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SPLM-DC and the Demise of Great Expectations
A year ago today, Lam Akol abandoned membership in the SPLM and formed the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement””Democratic Change (SPLM-DC). In a six-page statement ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...