African Arguments
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Is the Darfur Advocacy Community’s “Raison d’íªtre to be Sought in the War on Terror”? No.
My aim in this piece is to focus on Mamdani’s major thesis, examining several of his supporting arguments in turn. I will thus try ... -
O’Fahey Responds to Mamdani
I am sceptical as to how useful these kinds of exchanges are, but let me just comment on two issues, raise a few general ... -
Legitimacy Matters (2)
Alex de Waal provides a much more coherent summary of my book The Right to Rule than I could have. I am glad that ... -
Legitimacy Matters
Legitimacy lurks in much political science writing but””like an invisible life force””is rarely scrutinized. What is this elusive thing? Can it be reduced to ... -
Sudanese Elections, Bankruptcy, and Ethnic Feuds Dog SPLM on 26th Anniversary
On 16 May, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) celebrates the day it was founded when two Southern-based battalions of the Sudanese army mutinied ... -
Saving Darfur, Gender and Victimhood
Amal Hassan Fadlalla is a Sudanese anthropologist living in America, and it is revealing that she chose to publish her analysis of the U.S. ... -
Ahmed Haroun in South Kordofan: Making the Peace or Breaking It?
The reshuffle of ministers and governors decreed by President al Bashir came as a surprise to most people and it is not immediately clear ... -
Mamdani Responds to His Critics II
In this second part, I intend to focus on the ideas, practices and politics of the Save Darfur movement. More specifically, I shall respond ... -
Darfur: Attention and Deterrence
Several posts over recent days have pointed to the discrepancy between media attention and levels of mortality. The analysis of media coverage of Darfur ... -
Including Darfur’s Arabs in the Peace Process
The Sudan government and the Justice and Equality Movement are meeting in Doha, and the US envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, is doing the ...