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Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan

Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan

Beswick, Stephanie

Paperback

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 17

African HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1580462316
ISBN13: 9781580462310
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Jan 15 2006
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them blood memories in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, has no history. Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself.

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