White Nile, black blood : war, leadership, and ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala

This pioneering volume introduces and defines a new realm of scholarly investigation. Over the course of a half-century of independence the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has been torn by extended periods of warfare, during which the southern Sudan, roughly defined by the basin of the White Nile, has acquired an ever-greater sense of separate identity. During the same interval the Southern Sudan has been drawn increasingly into a web of diplomatic and geopolitical ties with neighboring lands, with regional powers such as Egypt, Israel and the oil states, and occasionally with major international powers interests. The stakes of the conflict in Southern Sudan rise with the passage of each decade. The present volume offers studies by leading African, European and American scholars of engaged participants in the experience of Southern Sudan. The studies are grounded in an impressive array of disciplinary expertise including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, political and military sciences, religion, cultural studies, journalism and development. Pt. I. Economy -- Franz Binder: A European Arab In The Sudan, 1852-1863 / Endre Stiansen -- Military Slavery And The Emergence Of A Southern Sudanese Diaspora In The Northern Sudan, 1884-1954 / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga -- Rape Of Nature: Environmental Destruction And Ethnic Cleansing In The White Nile Basin / Damazo Dut Majak -- Mortality, Food Insecurity And Food Aid Dependence In Sudan / John Prendergast -- The Nile Waters, Border Issues And Radical Islam In Egyptian-sudanese Relations, 1956-1995 / Gabriel R. Warburg -- Pt. Ii. Violence -- Women, War And Leadership In South Sudan (1700-1994) / Stephanie Beswick -- The Anglo-ethiopian Campaign Against The Italians, 1941-1942 / Harold Marcus -- Abyei: A Bridge Or A Gulf? The Ngok Dinka On Sudan's North-south Border / Francis Deng -- Genesis Of The Crisis In The Sudan / Wal Duany And Julia Duany -- The Nuba People: Confronting Cultural Liquidation / Roger Winter -- Warfare And Instability Along The Sudan-uganda Border: A Look At The Twentieth Century / Thomas Ofcansky -- Pt. Iii. Identity -- Life In The Grass: Ecological Linguistics Of The Acholi / Kjell Hodnebo -- The Funj Problem In Archaeological Perspective / Else Johansen Kleppe -- Zande Resistance To Foreign Penetration In The Southern Sudan, 1860-1980 / Scopas Sekwat Poggo -- The Egyptian Colonial Presence In The Anglo-egyptian Sudan, 1898-1932 / Heather Sharkey-balasubramanian -- Lul: The First Missionary Post In Southern Sudan In The Twentieth Century / Giovanni Vantini. Edited By Jay Spaulding & Stephanie Beswick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This pioneering volume introduces and defines a new realm of scholarly investigation. Over the course of a half-century of independence the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has been torn by extended periods of warfare, during which the southern Sudan, roughly defined by the basin of the White Nile, has acquired an ever-greater sense of separate identity. During the same interval the Southern Sudan has been drawn increasingly into a web of diplomatic and geopolitical ties with neighboring lands, with regional powers such as Egypt, Israel and the oil states, and occasionally with major international powers and interests.The stakes of the conflict in Southern Sudan rise with the passage of each decade. The present volume offers studies by leading African, European and American scholars of and engaged participants in the experience of Southern Sudan. The studies are grounded in an impressive array of disciplinary expertise including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, political and military science, religion, cultural Studies, journalism and development. "The present volume offers studies by leading African, European and American scholars of and engaged participants in the experience of Southern Sudan. The studies are grounded in an array of disciplinary expertise including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, political and military science, religion, cultural studies, journalism and development."--BOOK JACKET.