The Sudan Handbook

A vital guide to two countries – Sudan and South Sudan –

and the historical processes that shaped them

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The Sudan Handbook

The Sudan Handbook – covering Sudan, South Sudan and the North-South

borderlands – has developed out of the Rift Valley Institute’s successful annual

Sudan Field Course, held in Rumbek, South Sudan since 2005. The Handbook is

an authoritative and accessible introduction to all aspects of the two countries,

rooted in a broad historical account of the development of the state and vividly

written by leading Sudanese, South Sudanese and international specialists. The

book includes numerous purpose-drawn maps, a glossary of key terms, capsule

biographies of key figures, a chronology and a bibliography.

The Editors

John Ryle is Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, New

York, and Director of the Rift Valley Institute; Justin Willis is Professor in History

at Durham University; Suliman Baldo is Director of the Africa Program at the

International Center for Transitional Justice in New York; Jok Madut Jok is

Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles,

and currently Undersecretary in the Ministry of Culture and Heritage of the

Government of South Sudan.

Contents

The Handbook consists of eighteen self-contained chapters dealing with a broad

range of topics: landscape and water resources; early states on the Nile; peoples

and cultures of the two Sudans; religious practice and belief; the historical

development of the state; Islamism in modern times; the history of economic

exploitation of resources from gold and slaves to oil; traditional authority, local

government and justice; civil wars in the south and the west; popular music; and

patterns of international intervention.

Printed copies DRC Fr 2700 EU

€ 22 Ethiopia Birr 425 Egypt £ 180 Kenya Sh 2400 Mozambique Met 900 SA Rand 225 Somalia Sh 45,000

Somaliland Sh 180,000 South Sudan £ 75 Sudan £ 75 Tanzania Sh 45,000 Uganda Sh 75,000 UK £ 18 US $ 30

The

Sudan

Handbook,

edited

by

John

Ryle,

Justin

Willis,

Suliman

Baldo

and

Jok

Madut

Jok.

©

2011

Rift

Valley

Institute

and

contributors

(www.riftvalley.net).