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This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves and masters. Thoroughly documented, it provides valuable context to current issues of global concern and combats persistent myths about African slavery.
The book aims to unravel the complexity of dynamics of power, domination, and resistance in Sudan. It will also draw special attention to who rules the country and how they ruled and what tools they deployed to execute their internal, regional, and international policies. Ultimately, by focusing on Sudan, I hope to provide an in-depth understanding of how political Islam operates in practical terms within the Middle East and North Africa.
Contents: (1) Recent Developments: U.S. Policy Toward Sudan; Trilateral Talks and the Abyei Arbitration; The Internat. Criminal Court and Sudan: Background; SPLM Position; U.S. Response; Possible Consequences and New Develop.; Security Conditions in Darfur; North-South Develop.; Peace Talks; Census; Elections; U.N. Peacekeeping; Executive Branch Sanctions; Humanitarian Conditions; (2) China and Sudan; (3) Develop. in S. Sudan; (4) Implementation of the CPA; (5) Darfur Conflict and Impact on Chad and CAR; (6) Crisis in Darfur; Atrocities; Janjaweed; Darfur Peace Agree. and Status of Implement.; U.S. Humanitarian Funding; African Union; Sanctions; Regime Change; Internat. Intervention; Bilateral Targeted Military Measures. Illustrations.
This book serves as a case study of the Sudanese Communist Party and its impact as a grassroots movement that championed the Sudanese people. It accomplishes this by providing a rich narrative that details the SCP's inception, main players, important milestones and values of the Party. In this narrative, the author not only delivers a comprehensive examination of the party components, he guides readers through their connections to one another, but also associates them, and the party, to Sudanese society at large. Using original party documents and interviews with leading figures, this book is the first time this subject has been detailed so extensively in one publication. It is also the only up-to-date work available on the subject and includes analysis of the most recent party congress and the division of the Sudan and creation of the newly independent Republic of South Sudan.
Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women’s political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women’s political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women’s participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked.
This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It traces the interaction of the world communist movement which was characterized by an uncritical acceptance of Marxism-Leninism, and local communists, who moved from initial dependence on Moscow to a position more adapted to local circumstances and sensitivities that could be characterized as a distinctive 'Arab communism'. It goes on to trace the impact of 'Arab communism' on a range of issues in the region, arguing that the role of Arab communist parties was highly significant, and disproportionate to the relatively small numbers of communists in the countries concerned.
A major purpose of this exploratory work on the intellectual origins and linkages of African and African-American thought was to hightlight critical aspects of the continuity, unity, and vitality of Black thought that continued to stimulate,inspire, and guide scientific social research and strategic policy-making in the African and the African-American spheres of knowledge and political concerns.
Although it is often simplified as an "ethnic conflict" in popular media, the current crisis in Darfur can only be superficially defined across ethnic lines. This project diverges from previous studies by addressing how the underlying social and environmental influences such as changing resource dynamics, expanding poverty, lack of infrastructure, and political corruption have brought the crisis to a head. Analyzing the interplay of these factors will yield valuable insights as to how a concerned international community can both end the tragic genocide and address the underlying injustices that engendered it.