Sudan's Predicament: Civil War, Displacement and Ecological Degradation (Making of Modern Africa) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754610209 ISBN 13: 9780754610205

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This work deals with the roots of Sudan's internal political conflicts, social and economic breakdown, and ecological impoverishment. It argues that all governments in Khartoum since independence have neglected the economic, political and cultural interests of the non-Muslim citizens of southern Sudan. The current National Islamic Front government is held especially responsible for ongoing civil war, economic and social dislocation. The regime's insistence on making Islam the sole religion, law of the land and instrument for political transformation has alienated the inhabitants of southern Sudan, the majority of whom subscribe to a variety of traditional African beliefs, but are also influenced by Christianity. Without a secular constitution, the book concludes, it would be difficult to imagine Sudan remaining as a unitary state. It suggests that any future political accord the South may enter with the North ought to be reached through constitutional changes where religion, the state and regionalism, among other issues, are discussed and resolved by all political parties and representative groups in the country. It suggests that any new constitution should recognize religious and ethnic diversities and an historical, political and cultural need to provide for an autonomous self-governing status for the South; should separate religions and the state; and give ethnic/cultural regions ownership and rights over their resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0754610209
• ISBN 13: 9780754610205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 147
• Editor: Kebbede Girma