New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum (African Studies) - Hardcover

Kindersley, Nicki

 
9781009422376: New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum (African Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009422375 ISBN 13: 9781009422376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan's capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people's political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores how these men and women thought through their circumstances, tried to build potential political communities, and imagined possible futures. Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, using personal stories, private archives, songs, poetry, photograph albums, self-written histories, jokes and new handmade textbooks, New Sudans follows its idealists' and pragmatists' variously radical, conservative, and creative projects across two decades on the peripheries of a hostile city. Through everyday theories of Blackness, freedom and education in a long civil war, Nicki Kindersley opens up new possibilities in postcolonial intellectual histories of the working class in Africa.

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About the Author

Nicki Kindersley is Lecturer in African History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. She was previously a Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from Durham University.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009422375
ISBN 13 
9781009422376
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
362