A History of South Sudan

A History of South Sudan
Author: Øystein H. Rolandsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521116317

South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. This book provides a general history of the new country.

The Borderlands of South Sudan

The Borderlands of South Sudan
Author: C. Vaughan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137340894

Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."

South Sudan

South Sudan
Author: Edward Thomas
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783604077

In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei state, the book explains how this area was at the heart of South Sudan's struggle. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a broad range of sources, this book gives a sharply focused, fresh account of South Sudan's long, unfinished fight for liberation.

Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa

Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa
Author: David M. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317539516

Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries – Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

In the Struggle and Service of My People

In the Struggle and Service of My People
Author: Hilary Paul Logali
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2024-01-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 180514765X

In the Struggle and Service of My People describes the growing up and education of a boy in the Anglo Egyptian Sudan in a missionary dominated environment. This memoir explains the economic political educational policies of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan, dominated by the British, which marginalized the South Sudanese. Through Hilary Paul Logali’s story one can see the awakening up of the South Sudanese to political realities only to find out that they have been railroaded, fait accompli, into a country without their knowledge and consultation. It shows the struggle of the Southerners as the underdogs in the struggle for a breathing space in Sudan with more mature, educated, sophisticated and dominant Northern Sudanese. You can however see how the new and better educated South Sudanese began to articulate Southern aspirations better than their parents. This political memoir explains the effects of coups and military rule as well as one party systems, which were in the vogue in Africa in those years, resulting in the stifling of democracy. It also demonstrates the scourge and the inimical effect of tribalism as an impediment to political development which is also rampant in many parts of Africa. You also will see the negative effect of political Islam in the country, which eventually drove the Sudan into the bad books of the international community and especially of the United States. Through all this can be seen the character of a person, Hilary Paul Logali, the Southern nationalist who sacrificed his education and career for the sake of the political service he undertook for his people.

The War of Destiny

The War of Destiny
Author: Dominic Ukelo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1728388252

Ethnic violence is a global problem that has claimed many millions of lives. Violence have been fuelled by ethnic tensions between groups of culturally different background. Identifying the causes of these ethnic tensions, would resulted to find solutions to reduce them, and greatly contribute to a peaceful coexistent globally. Global leaders, need to understand the historical propensities, in order to resolve the insurgency issues, which is the result of ethnic tension. Understanding the grassroots of conflict in the WBG region, the Republic of South Sudan, would help the country, and others who are vulnerable to the same tensions, to avoid the conflict. The War of Destiny is the first to document the threats that were facing the Fertit community and how they survived the well planned atrocities. Therefore, the book considered to be historical. The book is especially relevant today, and one that students, social scenes researchers, political and military leaders, and interested citizens at all levels should read. Also, the War of Destiny should become must reading book for officers and elites in the Republic of South Sudan and other parts of the world, where the possibility of ethnic conflicts among communities exist. Because the lesson learned from this book is applicable, in order to prevent the ethnic conflicts and build a sustainable peaceful coexisting around the world.

Islam in West Africa

Islam in West Africa
Author: Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1315295431

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Family Dispute Resolution from a Cultural Perspective

Family Dispute Resolution from a Cultural Perspective
Author: Buol Garang Anyieth Juuk
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2023-07-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1527528731

Family dispute resolution is the central theme of this book. The book contributes to the growing body of research on non-Australian perspectives of South Sudanese settlement in Australia in a unique way; while other researchers have highlighted several of the settlement problems faced by South Sudanese former refugees, none have focused on the important issue of how family law problems are resolved. This book will also make a vital contribution to our understanding of how the Australian legal system works (or does not work) within the context of legal pluralism. Ultimately, this book will strengthen our understanding of social integration and family well-being of South Sudanese families and other groups in Australia.

Slaves and Slavery in Africa

Slaves and Slavery in Africa
Author: John Ralph Willis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317792130

This Volume One of a series on slaves and slavery in Muslim Africa. First published in 1985, it looks at Islam and the ideology of enslavement. Slaves of African origin formed a vital thread in the living lines of economic production in the Near and Middle East and formed the cord of economic activity in Islamic Africa itself. Slaves sustained the salt pits and date palms of desert societies; they worked the spice plantations of the East African littoral - became the porters and placemen in the trans-Saharan trade; and they constituted the entourage - the veritable wealth and currency - of the notables of Islamic societies.