In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take
power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars-a …

This new and revised edition of A Concise History of South Sudan was revised by Avelino
Androga Said, Yosa Wawa, Anne Farren and Anders Breidlid. All chapters were revised and …

Historians usually trace the start of the first civil war in the Southern Sudan to the Torit mutiny
of 1955. However, organized political violence did not reach the level of civil war until 1963 …

This article explores conflicts over local administrative boundaries in South Sudan and what
these reveal about relationships between pastoralist communities and the state. Drawing on …

This article explores specific oral histories and chiefship debates in the aftermath of the
SPLA war in two Southern Sudanese chiefdoms. It argues that these local histories reveal …

This longitudinal study explores the place of the civilian populations in the wars of what is
now South Sudan. Using a broad range of empirical evidence, we trace the evolution of …

Linguistics is implicated in the colonial project of the invention of 'self-contained''racial'and
'tribal units' in the Sudan. This paper has two objectives. First, to historicise the notions of …

As the population of Khartoum increased during the 1940s, the Sudan government sought to
demolish the Deims that surrounded the southern edge of the city and relocate the residents …

This dissertation explores peasant political action in response to state-driven land
expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year …

This thesis is a study of the causes and drivers of political violence during Idi Amin's eight
years as President of Uganda between 1971 and 1979. It is concerned with the relationship …