Historical Dictionary of South Sudan

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This is the first ever historical dictionary of South Sudan as an independent nation. It focuses on the events, peoples, and cultures of South Sudan that were once treated as marginal to the grand narrative of Sudanese national history, but without disentangling South Sudan from wider historical connections across the Nile Valley and Northeast Africa. With an interpretive introduction by the three authors, it offers new perspectives on historical events and personalities, extensive coverage of recent events and current affairs, short biographies of leading social and political figures, an extensive chronology, a comprehensive bibliography, and maps based on current research illustrating specific issues confronting the new nation. Building on the classical anthropological and historical studies of South Sudanese peoples as well as new research, especially by South Sudanese authors, it provides a foundation on which to build new research on South Sudan and new perspectives on its shared history with Sudan and the wider region.Historical Dictionary of South Sudan contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about South Sudan.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 38 mm
Vikt:982 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Dictionaries of Africa
Antal sidor:592
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538124499

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Douglas H. Johnson is an independent scholar specializing in the history of Sudan, South Sudan, and Northeast Africa. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of fourteen books, including Nuer Prophets (1994), The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars (3 editions 2003-2016), and South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation (2016).Kuyok Abol Kuyok is the Undersecretary of the Ministry of General Education and Instruction and an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Education, the University of Juba. He is the author of South Sudan: the Notable Firsts (2015), a biographical dictionary of South Sudan, and the editor of Peter Nyot Kok: A Tribute (2022).Nicki Kindersley is an historian and lecturer at Cardiff University, Wales and the author of New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum (2024).

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsReader’s NotesMapsPrincipal Ethnic and Ethnolinguistic groups in Sudan and South SudanSouth Sudan in 1956Sudan-South South Border areaWestern Bahr el-Ghazal, showing Kafia Kingi and Hofrat al-NahasSouth Sudan-Ethiopian border showing the Baro Salient and the Ilemi TriangleAbyei AreaOil Concessions 2007Oil Developments in Unity StateSudan and South Sudan in 2011Acronyms and AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendices1. Censuses of South Sudan2. Indigenous Languages of South Sudan3. Comparative Shilluk King Lists4. Governors of the Southern Provinces5. Condominium Era Pacification Campaigns, 1899-19306. The Machakos Protocol7. Political Structures for Southern Sudan 1969-20118. Educational InstitutionsBibliographyAbout the Authors