Sudan after Nimeiri
At the end of 1984 Sudan shot into the headlines as a result of famines, locusts, political instability and civil war. In this book, a group of experts examine the problems from different viewpoints. In describing the scale of the collapse of state and economy, it is emphasised just how widespread and deep is the extent of the country's current predicament and how difficult and interrelated are the possible answers to the crisis. Among the issues addressed are:
- environmental and ecological problems
- economic collapse
- famine
- debt
- refugees
- the role of Islam in Sudanese politics
- Nimeiri's downfall
- the administrative problems facing the transitional and present governments.
The book will be particularly valuable to specialists and students of politics and development.
Peter Woodward is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Reading.
Routledge/SOAS Contemporary Politics and Culture in the Middle East Series
Edited by Tony Allan, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
Other titles in the series:
Egypt under Mubarak
Edited by Charles Tripp and Roger Owen
Turkish State, Turkish Society
Edited by Andrew Finkel and Nukhet Sirman
Politics and the Economy in Jordan
Edited by Rodney Wilson
Modern Literature in the Middle East
Edited by Robin Ostle
Forthcoming:
The Kurds
Edited by Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Stefan Sperl
Sudan after Nimeiri
Edited by Peter Woodward
First published 1991
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sudan after Nimeiri.
1. Sudan
I. Woodward, Peter 1944
962.404
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sudan after Nimeiri/edited by Peter Woodward.
p. cm. (Routledge/SOAS contemporary politics and culture in the Middle East
series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-00480-2
1. Sudan Politics and government 1956 Congresses.
I. Woodward, Peter, 1944. II. Series.
DT 157.1.S83 1991
962.404dc20.
90-26290
CIP
ISBN 0-415-00480-2
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Contents
| Mike Hulme and A. Trilsbach |
| Charles G. Gurdon |
| Tim Niblock |
| Kamal Osman Salih |
| James Chiriyankandath |
| Al-Agab Ahmed Al-Teraifi |
| Douglas H. Johnson |
| Jean Franois Rycx |
| Ahmed Al-Shahi |
| Ahmed Karadawi |
| Craig Calhoun, William Drummond and Dale Whittington |
| Peter Woodward |
James Chiriyankandath lived in Sudan in his youth, before undertaking doctoral research in India. After working for the Economic and Social Research Council, he is now at the Centre for Indian Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Hull.
Charles Gurdon is a graduate of SOAS and completed a PhD on the mineral resources of the Middle East and North Africa. He has researched widely on issues concerned with international border disputes and supervises studies in such areas. He has travelled widely in Sudan and takes a particular interest in resource problems and related politics.
Michael Hulme lectured in physical geography for four years in the University of Salford before taking up his current position of Senior Research Associate in the Climate Research Unit in the University of East Anglia. He has travelled widely in Africa and published on several aspects of African climate and environmental change. His current work at the CRU is concerned with global precipitation change since the nineteenth century and a comparison of observed precipitation trends and model prediction of the Greenhouse Effect.
Douglas Johnson undertook historical research on the Nuer of the southern Sudan, and later became Assistant Director of the Archives of the Southern Region in Juba in the 1970s. He now lives in Oxford, and has published widely, including co-editing (with David Anderson) The Ecology of Survival: case studies from Northeast African history, 1988.
Ahmed Karadawi graduated from the University of Khartoum and entered the Ministry of Interior, Sudan when he rose to become Assistant Commissioner. In the 1970s he did research for an MPhil in Reading, and in the 1980s a PhD in Oxford, both on issues associated with refugees in Sudan. He is currently head of Save the Children Fund (USA) in Sudan.
Tim Niblock has researched extensively the political institutions of the countries of the Middle East, especially those of Iraq. He has also specialised in the politics of Sudan after spending a period teaching and researching in the University of Khartoum. He holds the post of Senior Lecturer in the University of Exeter.
Jean Franois Rycx was a researcher with the CRNs in Aix-en-Provence, concerned particularly with Islam in north Africa. He later went into a legal practice in Cairo, and is currently teaching in the Facult des Lettres, Universit de Provence.
Kamal Osman Salih is a member of the Department of Political Science, University of Khartoum. He took his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and has since taught in the University of Kuwait as well as Khartoum. He is the author of a number of articles.
Ahmed al-Shahi is originally from Iraq and studied in Britain, talcing his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He taught social anthropology in Khartoum and conducted extensive research on the Northern Region, on which he has published widely. Since leaving Sudan he has taught in the University of Newcastle.
Al-Agab Ahmed Al - Teraifi undertook postgraduate work in the United States at Pittsburgh. He has become internationally recognised as a leading authority on the structure and performance of Sudan's civil service, and has produced numerous books and articles in Arabic and English.
A. Trilsbach was lecturer in Geography at the University of Durham from 1983-9 where he specialised in Sudanese affairs. In 1987 he became inaugural secretary of the Sudan Studies Association of the UK and also editor of its Newsletter Sudanese Studies. He is now Principal Planner with Kent County Council with particular interest in the impact of the Channel Tunnel.
Dale Whittington is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, and City and Regional Planning, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has researched and modelled the water resources of the Nile basin especially those of Sudan and Egypt. He provides advice to the international agencies on water resource problems. His co-authors in this volume are Craig Calhoun who is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Office of International Programs at the University of North Carolina, and William Drummond who is currently an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Georgia.
