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War of Visions
The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict. The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the N...
Journeys Across the Invisible Bridge
This book provides an account of the journeys of Francis M. Deng's ideas, grounded in Dinka values, and extended to inter-communal, national, and global levels. Deng has developed his ideas through global United Nations mandates on the human rights of displaced people and the prevention of genocide. However, their origins can be traced down through his contribution to the vision of a "New Sudan," and deeper to more local roots, in his homeland of Abyei, where he tries to reconcile the paradox of his area as both a gulf and a bridge between the two Sudans. Ultimately, Deng is elaborating upon values that he learned from his father, in his court, where he observed the art of administration, an...
Blood of Two Streams
This book—part memoir, part political statement—examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal.
A Journey of Ideas
Over a forty-year career, Dr Francis Mading Deng, South Sudan's most eminent statesman, diplomat and academic, became one of Africa's most prolific writers. His catalogue includes books (fiction and non-fiction), journal articles, policy documents, reports, opinion pieces, think tank analysis, and more. This collection of his writings will lead the reader through his early years as a young scholar, (and first person from Southern Sudan to gain a PhD), recording Dinka traditions through songs and folktales, interviews with elder Chiefs, and the customary laws of his indigenous society. His writing did not slow down during the many roles played, which includeed academic, politician, and peace ...
Bound by Conflict
Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North–South dimension of the conflict was seemingly resolved by the independence of the South on July 9, 2011. However, as a result of issues that were not resolved by the CPA, conflicts within the two countries have reignited conflict between them because of allegations of support for each other’s rebels. In Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans, Francis M. Deng and Daniel J. Deng critique the tendency to see these conflicts as separate and to seek isolated solutions for them, when, in fact, they are closely intertwined. The policy implication is that resolving conflicts within the two Sudans is critical to the prospects of achieving peace, security, and stability between them, with the potential of moving them to some form of meaningful association.
Human Rights, Southern Voices
This anthology contains a variety of Southern perspectives on human rights and contemporary issues relating to Islam, African custom, constitution making and abuses of the language of human rights.
Invisible Bridge
Francis Deng was in his second year in 1959-60, one of only four or five Southern law students. He was one of the favoured sons of Deng Majok, the well-known Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, the only Nilotic people to live in Northern Sudan. Francis was quite short for a Dinka, only about six-foot, but he was recognizably Nilotic and, without putting on airs, had a dignified aristocratic bearing. He spoke very good English and Arabic and, in some respects, became a leader of the whole class, not just the few Southerners, for instance, leading an expedition to Germany during a long vacation. Oliver Farran and I encouraged him to gather information about Dinka custom and this turned out to b...
Cry of the Owl
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The Dinka of the Sudan
Case study that presents & interprets the rich qualities of Dinka life. The reader learns of the structure of society, sex roles, courtship, kinship, age-sets & rivalries, the family, property, mores, law, religion, philosophy, poetry, & dance.
