The process of liberation in south Sudan has been rocky since 1955. Successive governments in Khartoum have broken promises and agreements relating to governance of the south, and the northern establishment has manipulated the situation to perpetuate northern hegemony, and to speed up the process of Islamisation in the south. This study from an activist in the politics of liberation in the south addresses relevant issues such as the objectives of the armed struggle, and…
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The purpose of this book is to document some of the famine crimes committed in Sudan, as well as to evaluate relief programmes and to identify political conditions that create famine or make its prevention possible.
This paper discusses the institutional and organizational characteristics of the state administration in Southern Sudan and its relationship with the foreign non-governmental aid organisations in the period between the Addis Ababa peace agreement in 1972 and the collapse of the administrative structure in the middle of the 1980s. It focuses on two different but interrelated phenomena. Firstly, an empirical description and analysis of the state and structure of the public bureaucracy and its characteristics and…
Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology’s most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. Hutchinson’s work provides a vision for…
This paper was presented during the symposium East African Age Systems in Transition: Contemporary Political and Military Contexts held from 28 November – 2 December 1995 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka sponsored by the Taniguchi Foundation and organized by the Senri Foundation. It was included as Chapter 3 in Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa edited by Eisei Kurimoto and myself and published in 1998 in the series Eastern African…
This PhD thesis examines to what extent the disparity between North and South can be explained in terms of the early Anglo-Egyptian Condominium’ legacy. Download
Resolutions of the SPLM/SPLA First National Convention, April 12, 1994. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
The opening and closing speeches of Dr. John Garang at the first SPLM Convention in 1994 presents and discusses different models for statehood. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
The articles in this book, collectively, address certain aspects of the processes of the first half of the second civil war (1983 – 1992) from economic, historical, political and sociological viewpoints. While the civil war in the South occupies a large space, the focus is more on the processes that are common to the country as a whole. Download
Africa Watch conducted field research in south Sudan in June and July 1993 to gather information about rules of war violations in the conflict. The following is a preliminary report of findings and recommendations to the United Nations, the United States, the international community and all sides to the conflict for ending abuses.
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